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Related: About this forumTaxpayers fund creationism in the classroom
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/education-creationism-104934.htmlA striking shift in public policy has flown largely under the radar. | AP/Getty
By STEPHANIE SIMON | 3/24/14 5:01 AM EDT
Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious schools that teach Earth is less than 10,000 years old, Adam and Eve strolled the garden with dinosaurs, and much of modern biology, geology and cosmology is a web of lies.
Now a major push to expand these voucher programs is under way from Alaska to New York, a development that seems certain to sharply increase the investment.
Public debate about science education tends to center on bills like one in Missouri, which would allow public school parents to pull their kids from science class whenever the topic of evolution comes up. But the more striking shift in public policy has flown largely under the radar, as a well-funded political campaign has pushed to open the spigot for tax dollars to flow to private schools. Among them are Bible-based schools that train students to reject and rebut the cornerstones of modern science.
Decades of litigation have established that public schools cannot teach creationism or intelligent design. But private schools receiving public subsidies can and do. A POLITICO review of hundreds of pages of course outlines, textbooks and school websites found that many of these faith-based schools go beyond teaching the biblical story of the six days of creation as literal fact. Their course materials nurture disdain of the secular world, distrust of momentous discoveries and hostility toward mainstream scientists. They often distort basic facts about the scientific method teaching, for instance, that theories such as evolution are by definition highly speculative because they havent been elevated to the status of scientific law.
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Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom (Original Post)
cbayer
Mar 2014
OP
The right wing backs this stuff because it opens the doors to polluting the environment.
immoderate
Mar 2014
#3
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)1. Lets see if any believer will come out and defend funding creationism
I won't - this stuff shouldn't be taught with Government Dollars. My guess is that nobody will.
Bryant
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. I do not believe anyone on this site will defend funding creationism. nt.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. The right wing backs this stuff because it opens the doors to polluting the environment.
--imm