What to teach the kids

[DanaC]

There are schools in the UK that also teach creationism as an alternative view and evolution as a 'theory' rather than fact.

God bless the Labour party for opening up the secondary education to an academy system allowing any tom dick and harry with a big bank balance and a big agenda to run our schools. And all with tax payers along for the economic ride too.

[Lamplighter]

xoB's pic and comment are particularly inflammatory in the US...

Beheading is something we don't do
... and even the thought or anticipation of it boils our juices.

My education by Hollywood movies tells me that beheading is only done by savage cultures,
such as the terrorists of the middle east, the Japanese, the head hunters of Borneo.
... Oh yes, don't forget the French.

But if other cultures do it, does it make us better
... just because we use a gun, a rope, an electric current, or a poisonous gas, or a lethal injection ?

Now come the drones...

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by DanaC

There are schools in the UK that also teach creationism as an alternative view and evolution as a 'theory' rather than fact.

I honestly did not know this.
WTF?!

These children surely cannot grow into functioning adults with this mis-information. I don't foist my opinions on anyone (well, except here) but how is it possible to live here with views that are so against the norm? It causes sectarianism and terrorism. As reflected in both Christianity and Islam.

I mean, I worked in a C of E school (note acceptance of past tense. Sigh.)
So shocking to know this is still kicking in this century. America is big enough to absorb fruitloopiness, we're not.

Put them on the Isle of Wight and tow it out to sea, I say.
See? I'm as tolerant as the next fruitloop.

[toranokaze]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I honestly did not know this.
WTF?!

These children surely cannot grow into functioning adults with this mis-information. I don't foist my opinions on anyone (well, except here) but how is it possible to live here with views that are so against the norm? It causes sectarianism and terrorism. As reflected in both Christianity and Islam.

I mean, I worked in a C of E school (note acceptance of past tense. Sigh.)
So shocking to know this is still kicking in this century. America is big enough to absorb fruitloopiness, we're not.

Put them on the Isle of Wight and tow it out to sea, I say.
See? I'm as tolerant as the next fruitloop.

That is one hell of a leap going from creationism to terrorist.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, but it's the only way to put fun in fundamentalism.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by DanaC

There are schools in the UK that also teach creationism as an alternative view and evolution as a 'theory' rather than fact.

God bless the Labour party for opening up the secondary education to an academy system allowing any tom dick and harry with a big bank balance and a big agenda to run our schools. And all with tax payers along for the economic ride too.

When did you move to the US?
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