(December 19, 2010 at 2:24 am)Micah Wrote: It's hilarious how you said Texas or Kansas. I'm right in the middle - Oklahoma.
Well, it's good then that I didn't bet money on it.
I don't really hear much about Oklahoma but what little I heard about this topic is that they have similar issues as Texas as far as church/state seporation. I'm guessing they're not as crazy with public shinnanigans. Usually though, when I hear things about history books not being conservative enough or science books not teaching 'both sides of the debate' between Intelligent Design and Evolution, it's usually from Texas and Kansas' Board of Education is infamous for that whole debate.
I'm from northern Indiana.
I think the state in general is center-right to the effect that it's often a red state in election but not afraid to go blue every now and again. I usually see a healthy mix of democrat and republican officials elected locally and otherwise.
I'm not sure though where Indiana squares as far as graduation rates and test scores compared with the rest of the country. I know we're not doing poorly though and I don't believe there has been any major moves by the state education to push religious philosophies in school cirriculum.
Given all that, I really enjoy living here.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
