Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I was sentenced to a church school at the age of five for the crime of existence. I'll agree both with the point about superior teaching (depending on the definition of "superior") and with the point about child abuse. Both are true. I didn't call it school, I called it "prison" and still do.
On point one, I noticed when I escaped and got into a public school for 7th grade, everything they were teaching was stuff I already knew from prison. And on point two, it made me hate every moment of every day, from literally the first day of first grade to literally high school graduation. Twelve years I'll never get back.
I don't remember Creationism taught as a matter of science, maybe because that particular degree of dumbdown hadn't been invented yet. But I do remember it being taught, right from first grade, and that was the exact point where I was given the gift of a nose for bullshit which opened the door for me to leave the religion.
Curiously I had an occasion to return to the old neighborhood this summer after not having been there at least 25 years. I knew everything would look different and sure enough, everything did, new buildings, new roads, new looks for old buildings... the one thing that hadn't changed at all and looked exactly like it did in the 1950s -- was the prison. It really would make my day to watch a bomb hit it.
Why are you sharing this with us?