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hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
5. The irony escapes them.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:12 AM
Sep 2012

NCLB was Idiot Son's idea to start with and him and Goodhair were all for it at the time.
And with the state GOP platform with it's being against critical thinking plank.

added this from juanitajean.com

"But it starts before college, even. It starts with going to high school and learning the true basic science behind cosmology, climatology, evolution and paleontology. Then some logic, math and reading comprehension skills. Then a true understanding of how religion is an unprovable, untestable, inconsistent philosophy and not, you know, real, as in a “let’s-rule-the-world” type of reality.

If we can accomplish that through public education, then Democrats will rule the world, because facts and logic are to Republicans what holy water spritzers with garlic garnish are to vampires.'

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