14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

[Lakhota]

By Deanna Pan

Slave masters were nice, the KKK is A-OK, and the Great Depression is a liberal fantasy. Thanks, Gov. Jindal!

Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.

Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.

For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college sophomore who's taken to Change.org to stonewall the program, has identified at least 19 that teach or champion creationist nonscience and will rake in nearly $4 million in public funding from the initial round of voucher designations.

Many of these schools, Kopplin notes, rely on Pensacola-based A Beka Book curriculum or Bob Jones University Press textbooks to teach their pupils Bible-based "facts," such as the existence of Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and all sorts of pseudoscience that researcher Rachel Tabachnick and writer Thomas Vinciguerra have thankfully pored over so the rest of world doesn't have to.

Here are some of my favorite lessons:

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

More holy shit stuff to make sane people cringe: 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools | Mother Jones

 

[Moonglow]

Wow, Loiusiana can't go much lower on the education rating scale, so what do they have to loose?

 

[bripat9643]

By Deanna Pan

Slave masters were nice, the KKK is A-OK, and the Great Depression is a liberal fantasy. Thanks, Gov. Jindal!

Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.

Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.

For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college sophomore who's taken to Change.org to stonewall the program, has identified at least 19 that teach or champion creationist nonscience and will rake in nearly $4 million in public funding from the initial round of voucher designations.

Many of these schools, Kopplin notes, rely on Pensacola-based A Beka Book curriculum or Bob Jones University Press textbooks to teach their pupils Bible-based "facts," such as the existence of Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and all sorts of pseudoscience that researcher Rachel Tabachnick and writer Thomas Vinciguerra have thankfully pored over so the rest of world doesn't have to.

Here are some of my favorite lessons:

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

More holy shit stuff to make sane people cringe: 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools | Mother Jones

That stuff isn't half as absurd as the horseshit they learn in government schools like "values clarification."

 

[Steelplate]

no matter how bad it gets...they defend it...wow.

 

[Lakhota]

This nonsense is why America is going to shit. Texas executed a guy today with an IQ of 61, and he was probably smarter than these religious nuts running around loose.

 

[rightwinger]

Red State education at it's best

They will make good Republicans

 

[AmyNation]

I can't imagine trying to get a higher education with that as my basic foundation.

 

[Steelplate]

I lived in Louisiana for 2 years....This does not surprise me. I remember when I lived there, a guy running for state congress told his potential constituents that "all it takes to make Louisianians happy is a pickup truck with a gun rack"......he won.

 

[Dissent]

19 out of 119. SO DON'T SEND YOUR KIDS THERE FUCKHEAD! Jesus h christ...liberals bitch and moan fest.

 

[whitehall]

Y'all left wing bigots believe everything Huffington blogs and then you criticize Louisiana's education system? Those Cajuns make you look like fools.

 

[syrenn]

lets see......

private education......vs..... public education.


ill take private over public any day of the week.

 

[bodecea]

By Deanna Pan

Slave masters were nice, the KKK is A-OK, and the Great Depression is a liberal fantasy. Thanks, Gov. Jindal!

Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.

Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.

For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college sophomore who's taken to Change.org to stonewall the program, has identified at least 19 that teach or champion creationist nonscience and will rake in nearly $4 million in public funding from the initial round of voucher designations.

Many of these schools, Kopplin notes, rely on Pensacola-based A Beka Book curriculum or Bob Jones University Press textbooks to teach their pupils Bible-based "facts," such as the existence of Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and all sorts of pseudoscience that researcher Rachel Tabachnick and writer Thomas Vinciguerra have thankfully pored over so the rest of world doesn't have to.

Here are some of my favorite lessons:

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

More holy shit stuff to make sane people cringe: 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools | Mother Jones

That stuff isn't half as absurd as the horseshit they learn in government schools like "values clarification."

Link the State Framework that is part of.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

lets see......

private education......vs..... public education.


ill take private over public any day of the week.

Same here!!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This nonsense is why America is going to shit. Texas executed a guy today with an IQ of 61, and he was probably smarter than these religious nuts running around loose.

That qualifies him to run for guv and he'd be a shoo-in for pub prez candidate.

Oh wait, he doesn't have money.

Never mind.

 

[bodecea]

lets see......

private education......vs..... public education.


ill take private over public any day of the week.

Why? (serious question)

 

[saveliberty]

Since its a school of choice, what makes you think it will survive without turning out more successful students.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

19 out of 119. SO DON'T SEND YOUR KIDS THERE FUCKHEAD! Jesus h christ...liberals bitch and moan fest.

They have the freedom to send them to govt indoctrination camps. Hey, but at least they'll know how to roll a condom over a cucumber during government sex hour.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Y'all left wing bigots believe everything Huffington blogs and then you criticize Louisiana's education system? Those Cajuns make you look like fools.

Didn't read the link, didja.

Its not HuffPo but it IS another intellectual, education oriented, LEFT wing, fact based link.

Prove that its incorrect.

 

[saveliberty]

^^^^

Thinks that is historically and spiritually correct. Is worried about others making mistakes.