True? Louisiana School Curriculum

Read an article on the privatization of schools in Louisiana, saying that some textbooks will be provided by Pensacola-based A Beka Book curriculum or Bob Jones University Press textbooks.

If my child came home talking about 1,3, 5,6, and 7. Id probably punch the teacher in the face, just for fuck sake.

Here are some of the text in these books.

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years." - Life Science, 3rd ed. Bob Jones University Press, 2007

2. Dragons were totally real: "[Is] it possible that a fire-breathing animal really existed? Today some scientists are saying yes. They have found large chambers in certain dinosaur skulls...The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke." - Life Science, 3rd ed. Bob Jones University Press, 2007
3. "God used the Trail of Tears to bring many Indians to Christ." - America: Land That I Love, Teacher ed. A Beka Book, 1994
4. Africa needs religion: "Africa is a continent with many needs. It is still in need of the gospel...Only about ten percent of Africans can read and write. In some areas the mission schools have been shut down by Communists who have taken over the government." - Old World History and Geography in Christian Perspective, 3rd ed. A Beka Book, 2004
5. Slave masters were nice guys: "A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well." - United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed. Bob Jones University Press, 1991
6. The KKK was A-OK: "[The Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians." - United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed. Bob Jones University Press, 2001
7. The Great Depression wasn't as bad as the liberals made it sound: "Perhaps the best known work of propaganda to come from the Depression was John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath... Other forms of propaganda included rumors of mortgage foreclosures, mass evictions, and hunger riots and exaggerated statistics representing the number of unemployed and homeless people in America. - United States History: Heritage of Freedom, 2nd ed. A Beka Book, 1996
8. SCOTUS enslaved fetuses: "Ignoring 3,500 years of Judeo-Christian civilization, religion, morality, and law, the Burger Court held that an unborn child was not a living person but rather the "property" of the mother (much like slaves were considered property in the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sandford)."- American Government in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed. A Beka Book, 1997
9. The Red Scare isn't over yet: "It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism." - American Government in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed. A Beka Book, 1997
10. Mark Twain and Emily Dicksinson were a couple of hacks: "[Mark] Twain's outlook was both self-centered and ultimately hopeless....Twain's skepticism was clearly not the honest questioning of a seeker of truth but the deliberate defiance of a confessed rebel." - Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University, 2001
"Several of [Emily Dickinson's] poems show a presumptuous attitude concerning her eternal destiny and a veiled disrespect for authority in general. Throughout her life she viewed salvation as a gamble, not a certainty. Although she did view the Bible as a source of poetic inspiration, she never accepted it as an inerrant guide to life." - Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University, 2001

 

do you have a reference for this article?

 

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars

 

News to me. Definitely some rediculous shyt but Jindal does want to privatize education. It's why he implemented the bullshyt he just did- setting up public schools to fail.

One example is part of a school's score will be from ACT tests. What's wrong with that, you ask? Well EVERY kid has to take it (State-funded btw) and the school will be scored, in part, on it. Does it make sense to give a "College" test to kids who know for dam sure they're not going? Just one of the incredibly stupid/unfair measures.

Jindal is a pecker-head muther phucker.

 

thanks for the link. after reading your initial post I googled the subject and found this article and others like it about the new law and the proposed curriculum.

all I can say is that I would never allow my children to be taught that garbage. that is not education, that is religious indoctrination. there should be laws in the country that forbid them to teach nonsense like this. if you are going to call it an education then there should be guidelines and limitations.

this is the only way that the ignorant right can keep their gene pool active: indoctrinate young children with garbage so they too will be condemned to a life of ignorance.

 

Tiga.....why is Jindal doing this? Forgive my ignorance of the subject as I am just learning about this but why is he so eager to dismantle the public school systems?

 

wow i didnt know about the ACT test, you know how thats going to come out.

 

Yes, indeed. He won't be happy until he's obliterated public education & healthcare in Louisiana.

He's also got the most pathetic deadfish handshake I've ever encountered. Usually a sign of someone you can't trust.

 

Not sure, really. I guess to free up the state's funding. There's so much I stopped keeping up cause it was just too disheartening. The standards are not the same for public/private schools either. For one thing, private schools choose their clients, public schools take anyone/everyone.

 

Sure but the majority of the public don't and when they say, "Our public schools are failing us", they buy it. Hell we educate kids today that we used to lock in closets. When they get expelled, there's a school (alternative setting) for them.