Do you know more about science and technology than the average American?

[freshwest]

212. If the females asked were in the Full Quiver movement, no. This should be basic school both sexes.

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The only separation of the sexes we had was for gym class. We had girls who did great in math and all the sciences, chemistry, biology, etc. It wasn't notable. It was normal.

Except for nanotechnology, those questions were all part of what we were taught. The climate gas question was in studies of the different geologic periods, even how some species evolved because of man-made conditions.

We knew people caused climate change on a micro and macro level. We were taught about the Dust Bowl and how desertification in different civilizations in the past caused it and how to prevent it. As well as weather modification like cloud seeding. Basic scientific education was as common as learning the days of the week.

Droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes or oil spills weren't called Acts of God by charlatans like Pat Robertson. No public figure would try to pray as his only solution like Rick Perry started with a few years ago. There was none of this insane 'women have things that shut pregnancy down in rape' crap.

Sex ed wasn't controversial, neither was evolution, labor, progressive social movements. We learned the differences between capitalism, co-operatives as a natural outgrowth of agrarian and urban societies, socialism and communism.

We could not graduate from an American history class without knowing the wars, the timeline of events during every presidential term, the Constitution, Federalism, the Amendments, how aws were made, all state and national capitols and world geography. Basic civics.

I attended WPA-built schools in a working class neighborhood. I graduated from the public high school in the south in the late sixties. I can't fathom how we got to point of the superstitious drivel that is being pumped into people's heads from the right and the left as well. Magical thinking is what I call it and it will destroy working democracy and belief in equality.



BTW, that's from a real text book. It would be funny if it wasn't.