True? Louisiana School Curriculum

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Not exactly. The 2008 law gives school teachers the right to bring non-scientific materials into science classrooms as supplements to textbooks on matters “including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning."

    In fact, practically no public school science teachers do this. Religion and religious dogma is usually taught in social studies classes, where it belongs.

    But in private schools with a religious agenda, creationism is taught in science classes. To the academic detriment of those children, I might add.
     
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  2. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    You are absolutely correct…excuse my laziness.
     
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  3. mobius481

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    It's a choice to go to that school. A choice. They are private schools and students and their family, knowing the curriculum, can choose to go there or can stay at the school they are at. It's a choice.

    Did I mention they have a choice?
     
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  4. LSUMASTERMIND

    LSUMASTERMIND Founding Member

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    it shouldnt be a choice with that curriculum and tax dollars involved.
     
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  5. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Did I mention that I have no choice that they use my tax dollars to pay for these schools to exist?

    These vouchers and TOPS scholarships are nanny-state programs that republicans should be ashamed of, considering their rhetoric. Governments should provide schools and the students should pay the tuition if they want to go to private schools or to college.
     
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  6. Tiger in NC

    Tiger in NC There's a sucker born everyday...

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    that really is disheartening. I got a public school education at Denham Springs High School in Denham Springs, La and it has served me well. never once during my college years did I encounter a subject that I felt I had not been prepared for in high school. I also attended a private school for two years of my high school years and, while it was more fun, there was less discipline and looser standards. that's a shame....
     
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  7. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    I'm sure that "passing" public schools were concerned with overcrowding issues if they took vouchers. Perhaps they wouldn't perform as well with overcrowded classrooms. And I don't think the state should've forced them to participate.

    As it looks right now,some of the voucher-accepting private schools are looking to stay open on the state dollar. That seems wrong on many levels--as does the creationism nonsense that MM linked in the first post in the thread. Regardless of saying that parents can choose to NOT send their child to a school that teaches this, in reality, how many parents are going to KNOW that's what's being taught?
     
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  8. martin

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    again, taxpayers dont pay for vouchers so you can send your kids to be taught retarded lies by morons. taxpayers want your kids to have an actual education so they are not idiots.
     
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    martin Banned Forever

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    the schools can do what they want, but the state should not approve them fr vouchers if they are religious schools.
     
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  10. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    Parent's that don't know what their kids are being taught are not taking enough interest in their child's education, which in my opinion is the biggest problem of all when it comes to education.
     
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