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In reply to the discussion: the 4th grade science test that has gone viral: sad but its true [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)129. and neither is some supposedly brilliant but unnamed geneticist.
again.. shades of 'wrong'.
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Amen! I feel bad for the President's children, who must be getting a second rate education
hughee99
Apr 2013
#5
To paint all home schooling with the same brush as this school is wrong.
Lady Freedom Returns
Apr 2013
#149
This is what we deserve when we put religious beliefs on a pedestal and shield it from criticism.
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#2
Sorry, but you don't get to define "child abuse" based on whatever suits your mood.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#37
I edited. Putting me back on ignore? Now I don't need to read YOUR shitty attitude.
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#56
Sorry, but I've had my fill of bandying words with willfully ignorant and obtuse people for one day.
eqfan592
Apr 2013
#161
It may not be actual child abuse, but does come damn close sometimes, IMO. n/t
AverageJoe90
Apr 2013
#51
I do too. They are crippled. Both in critical thinking and how the world works.
we can do it
Apr 2013
#164
NO! You are free to believe whatever you want. You should not be free to force...
TheMadMonk
Apr 2013
#18
So parents can't raise their children in a particular religious upbringing?
TimberValley
Apr 2013
#24
Again, just the above example, or should all religious teaching be criminalized? /nt
demwing
Apr 2013
#88
religious education is one thing, indoctrination into a particular religion another.
Phillip McCleod
Apr 2013
#126
You Hit on My Thoughts Exactly. They'll Be So Far Behind Other Students in College
dballance
Apr 2013
#13
Wait-- is the "vast majority" of Christianity evolution-denying fundamentalists or not?
Marr
Apr 2013
#118
You believe that man lived amongst dinosaurs and the earth is only 6000 years old...
truebrit71
Apr 2013
#55
I'm not sure about 6,000 years old, but I do believe 10,000 years or younger. nt.
TimberValley
Apr 2013
#59
Believing it to be true doesn't make it so, and believing in the fact of contrary facts...
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#62
You can agree all you want, but you will continue to be wrong and wilfully ignorant.
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#60
Republicans win because there are those like yourself that would prefer we ignore reality
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#75
It should be illegal to deliberately teach lies and call yourself a 'school'
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#115
telling kids santa is real is WAY WAY different than telling them god is real.
Phillip McCleod
Apr 2013
#130
i don't think it should be outlawed, but curriculum should be secular.
Phillip McCleod
Apr 2013
#138
Teaching ones child about ones relgion is one thing, brainwashing them to believe nonsense is anothe
cleanhippie
Apr 2013
#142
As Frank Schaeffer described it - "The home school and Christian school movement are creating the
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#116