(January 2, 2012 at 3:36 pm)aleialoura Wrote: As the mother of a 1st grader, and two girls that are not yet school aged, I am infuriated that this is still an issue. If these stupid fucking religious fools want their kids to learn fairy tales in science class, then perhaps they should send their poor children to a private fucking school, and let the secular public schools teach the reality of evolution. If this sort of revolting bullshit comes to where I live, you will be seeing me on the news.
My kids would probably get in trouble for disrupting class to tell their teacher about evolution. I mean seriously, I can hear my daughter shouting, "We're primates, not skymates! Get over it!"
Something has to be done about this madness. This is public fucking school we're talking about here! They teach evolution as a fact in Catholic schools now. WTF?!?!?!
... and people wonder why the ACLU is so bloody prolific.
They're still one of the best organisations in America.
But yeah, this is the sorry state of education in this country.
Facts are so bloody inconvenient these days.
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
