Fourth Grade Science Test

[tacocat]

No!

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Ugh.

[madDawg228]

I remember getting a children's book about people living with dinosaurs from a Baptist church when I attended Sunday school.

Everyone knows that dinosaurs won't actually live with people until we suck their old blood out of mosquitos stuck in amber

[niq]

May 8, 2013 11:08:07 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

I mean, this is totally horrible (IMO) but who sends their child to a school where a science is taught in the "creation-based" manner? If you don't want your kid learning this crap, don't send them to a school that teaches in this way.

It's possible that the parent likes other things about the school. They might do better at math and reading; more time spent on fun stuff like art & music; college placement might look a lot better and it's easier to get them into the school as little kids; there might be fewer nonwhite classmates.

Oops, did I say that last one out loud?

The total fuckedupedness of the public school situation in the South might be the biggest reason I'm happy not to live there anymore.

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May 8, 2013 10:52:23 GMT -5 madDawg228 said:

Everyone knows that dinosaurs won't actually live with people until we suck their old blood out of mosquitos stuck in amber

[niq]

May 8, 2013 15:22:48 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

May 8, 2013 15:15:13 GMT -5 niq said:

It's possible that the parent likes other things about the school. They might do better at math and reading; more time spent on fun stuff like art & music; college placement might look a lot better and it's easier to get them into the school as little kids; there might be fewer nonwhite classmates.

Oops, did I say that last one out loud?

The total fuckedupedness of the public school situation in the South might be the biggest reason I'm happy not to live there anymore.

I don't know - maybe it's just me, but even if my child does better at math and reading at this (likely private) school, isn't there something to be said for never learning anything correct about science?  Does that outweigh it?  Snopes said the kid is learning Latin in 4th grade, which I suppose is cool in one sense and is a total waste of time in the other.  Personally, I'd rather have my kid learn actual science stuff and a useful language as opposed to creation-based science and a dead language, hence the reason I would never send my child to this school.

It's not all science, it's just Biology. Physics and Chemistry and even lots of things related to medicine (!) are taught normally. Well okay, not the parts about homosexuality.

I'm not saying that the kids going to these places get into Harvard or Brown. They'll get into Davidson or Vanderbilt or UNC-Chapel Hill or Georgia Tech instead of USC (the state school in Columbia, not the private school in LA) or Appalachian State, etc.

Oh and the "were you there" trolling is so awful. blech.

[BlackCanary]

If I read the article correctly, this is a Christian school, right?

Going off of that, this is almost every Christian school I attended. (And I've been to 3 different ones.) Creationism is what is taught in science classes. I'm not saying it's right, just that it's not terribly surprising.

And we always had a Bible class in the curriculum. A lot of memorizing scripture every week. Though when I transferred to public school, those Bible classes turned into extra credits.