Ripped from Wonkette.com who ripped it from Mother Jones. An article about text books in American schools. Well, not public schools, but religious schools and homeschooling. You know, the ones the GOP and most red states want to start giving vouchers to, further draining public schools of money.
WITH YOUR TAX MONEY if they get away with it, Louisiana has a pilot program set up ready to hand tax dollars to the holy. Sample below, and you should read the math notes, it seems that much of higher math is just devil stuff.
“[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
Or this revisionist view of the Great Depression:
“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
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteMy cousins kid went to a Christain elementary (the state would not certify the place for high school) and after 8th grade entered public high school - she had about a 4th grade reading level and had trouble adding two and fucking two.
But, she could quote scripture. She had to drop out of school because she couldn't pass the classes. Later, the state closed the school.
Home schooling scares me also - Take Sanitarium, can you even imagine what his kids are being taught?
Ron