Here Is What Louisiana Schoolchildren Learn About Evolution

[JaneyVee]

[ananda]

1. That is creepy..

.. like some kind of children's horror movie,
except it's real.

[mick063]

4. All children should watch this

[ReasonableToo]

37. Here's another video to check out...

Bill Maher has a chat with a scientist from the Vatican...

(a good chat)

[JeffHead]

2. Goebbels would be proud.

[madaboutharry]

3. That is pathetic.

Americans are so ignorant.

[Sadiedog]

5. Is this from a public school text?

If so it is very disturbing!

[MountainLaurel]

16. Sort of

I would guess this is a textbook -- maybe from the Beka curriculum -- from one of the religious "schools" receiving public funds from the state via either voucher money or as a charter school.

[WinkyDink]

17. There is no "sort of". Is it or isn't it a PUBLIC SCHOOL text?

[MountainLaurel]

21. I'm not the OP

But if you're asking if it's a school receiving public money, the answer is yes.

[XemaSab]

6. What book is this?

[bluestateguy]

7. A lot of Louisiana college freshmen will be failing intro biology

When they go to public universities and bring those twisted ideas with them, they won't make it past their first exam.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

8. Most evolutionists don't believe that there was one great flood? Don't they know that the world was

flat before it (apparently through a miracle) became a sphere?

[Fumesucker]

9. Oooh.. Do they have Dinosaur Jesus in there?

[former-republican]

12. I have been proven wrong

[demwing]

27. The little dino is so cute

listening for the heart of Jesus, trying to find the juicy parts, it's just adorable!

[Ilsa]

10. And Americans wonder why we are

Falling behind other countries in STEM?

[former-republican]

11. Anyone with brains knows people were on earth before dinosaurs.

There were no dinosaurs in the garden of Eden.

Why are some people so dumb.

[Odin2005]

13. Colleges should accept no applicants who graduate from these schools.

Colleges should not have to be forced to engage in remedial education because RW Christo-Fascists want their kids taught BS.

Once they realize that their kids will get nowhere in life by teaching them mythology as fact thing will change.

[riderinthestorm]

25. Uhm, you assuming these kids GO to regular colleges and not Liberty U, Bob Jones, or Regent U

where this kind of teaching is MANDATORY for admission.



There is a whole sub-strata of society that's being built to accommodate these fools. They are infiltrating government, the military, school boards and more. I'd like to think there are enough of us to out-weight the religious crazies but from my perspective they seem to be gaining strength and numbers (and influence).

[Odin2005]

29. I doubt most businesses accept degrees from Liberty U and other propaganda centers.

[abelenkpe]

32. Our credit union employs as their financial advisor

A fellow who proudly displays his diploma from liberty university. Had an appointment with him once to discuss our family's investments, looked up and saw his diploma and could not have gotten out of there faster. Wtf?! Certainly not trusting that guy with our investments.....

[Odin2005]

36. WTF?

[abelenkpe]

44. exactly

pretty sure I stood up mid sentence with this look:

[Odin2005]

45. LMAO!

[ReasonableToo]

38. Republican administrations will hire them...

...as policy advisors and lawyers.

[riderinthestorm]

39. Uhm, how quickly Monica Goodling (Sr Advisor to Alberto Gonzalez)

and others of her ilk are forgotten.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601799.html

I repeat, there's a MAJOR problem with this sub-strata of religious whackjobs and their access via the rightwing religious network of crazies linked into our nation's biggest power brokers (remember "The Family&quot .

[chollybocker]

14. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

"So dinosaurs and man would have lived at the same time. God's word is always accurate. We can trust it to be true even in areas of science."

Very convincing argument! Did Bobby Jindal write this book?

[IDemo]

15. Man is the highest level of animal?

Says who?

[MountainLaurel]

18. "We don't look at the quality of the curriculum"

Under Louisiana's Constitution, any nonpublic school getting state money must be certified as providing a curriculum or specialized course of study at least equal to those required for similar public schools.

But it's questionable whether that requirement is being met for the 377 schools in the state voucher program.

snip

"We don't look at what they teach," he said. "We look at the system. We look at policies and procedures, not what they teach. It's how they teach and not what they teach."

A public records request to view curricula submitted by nonpublic schools found that neither BESE nor the Department of Education requires them to submit copies of their curricula or copies of the books they use.

This is in blatant violation of the SCOTUS ruling that allowed vouchers in addition to the state constitution.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20121119/NEWS01/121119011

[WinkyDink]

19. OP's title needed the word "SOME."

[Fumesucker]

23. What? Is this the AP version or something?

[demwing]

20. I don't believe this is from a public school

and if it is, I really wonder why any DUer would question a progressive's desire to homeschool their child

[BlueMan Votes]

26. that's the point- it's from a publicly funded private school.

nice stuff- huh?

[demwing]

28. Jesus wept

Cause his children were so fucking stupid

[Initech]

22. Why am I suddenly reminded of Jesus Camp?

[nolabear]

24. I want to know where this came from. I don't know any kids who've had that.

I grew up in Southern Mississippi, my neices and nephews in the Louisiana school system, and none of us was taught scripture or Creationism. Private schools, all bets are off. I've heard that some public schools do, but have never actually known any.

[BlueMan Votes]

30. the times they are a-changin'...

private schools- now with public financing.

it's a brave new world.
and i don't grok to it.

[nolabear]

31. What school? I'm not arguing, just curious.

[SpartanDem]

33. Not sure but LA greatly expanded it's voucher program

This would be funny if it weren’t so, well, not funny.

A biology textbook used by a Christian school in Louisiana that will be accepting students with publicly funded vouchers in the fall says that the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland is real. And it isn’t just any monster but a dinosaur — an effort to debunk evolution and bolster creationist theory.

The story, reported in the Scotsman newspaper in Scotland, says that Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake is one of the many Christian schools in the United States that uses these books published by Accelerated Christian Education.
......

The reason all of this matters now to the public is that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed a law that sets up the largest voucher program of any state in the country. Some 125 private and religious schools from across the state are qualified to participate in the Louisiana Believes program, which gives families public money to pay school tuition for their children

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/loch-ness-monster-real-in-biology-textbook/2012/06/26/gJQAPhwr4V_blog.html

[BlueMan Votes]

35. here's a thread with more info on the subject...

14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021847558

and a link to the article it's about-

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars

[SpartanDem]

34. Links?

[Canuckistanian]

40. "Evolutionists"? WTF?

Why don't they come right out and say "Darwinists"?

This is fringe anti-science stuff. I can't believe this is in a friggin' textbook in a public school.

Oh, I weep for a society that does this. It's literally a giant step backwards in thinking.

[DreamGypsy]

41. Looks like this post was copied directly from a BuzzFeed article...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/here-is-what-louisiana-schoolchildren-learn-about

None of the interesting questions posed by repliers here are answered, as far as I can tell, eg. which textbooks, what children, what schools, etc.

There is a link on the BuzzFeed page subheading ' as competing theories' to http://www.bjupress.com/resources/science/grade-5/

I poked around a bit and didn't discover the particular texts shown in post/buzzfeed article.

More research is needed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. As a former biology teacher what really irks me

beyond the idea of teaching creationism in a science class at all, is that they don't teach it right!

"if this were true simple life forms would ALL be buried in the lowest layers of rock" - No. Simple life forms could be found in all layers of rock. Simple life forms still exist. More advanced life forms would only be found in higher, younger layers of rock.

"It appears that most fossils were buried during a SUDDEN catastrophe like the Flood." Nonsense. The fossil record indicates that more of the Earth was covered with water than is covered now. Nothing indicates it was sudden.

"The animals that lived longer were buried in the top layers of rock." - The fossils of the plants and animals that lived more RECENTLY are found in the top layers of rock.

etc.

If the explain evolution in a nonsensical way, it's no surprise kids won't understand it or accept it. Of course they don't want them to.

[Egalitarian Thug]

43. Frightening indeed. How on earth do these morons expect civilization to maintain when

they are churning out unthinking, superstitious ignoramuses?

I guess their magical sky-man will have to take over and run everything. But wait, that would be Communism.