Well America Education system may just be plain screwed

[TaraJo]

That's on them then. I'm not all about life handing them everything they should be handed... coming back from indoctrinization builds character

*If* they come back from it. A good number of them will buy into the brain washing and become the next generation of fundamentalist conservative Christians. They'll be rewriting the history books and science books and the social studies books all to fit their political agenda. I heard about a math professor who was from Russia and she said she got into math because she thought numbers were the only subject that the soviet government couldn't spin for their advantage and this made it the only subject she could really feel confident that she's learning the truth. The alarming thing is, now the US is starting to move in that direction. The frustrating thing, though, is something else. Anyone read 1984? I remember reading something in there that has stuck with me: whoever controls the past controls the present and whoever controls the present controls the future. When they revise history books to fit a political agenda, that's what they're doing: controling the past. They're turning Orwellian on us.

70 years ago, Christians were on the front lines fighting against civil rights for racial minorities and women and now they're putting in a revisionist history that says the exact opposite. In another 50 or so years, they're going to try to claim that Christians were the leaders for gay rights even though religious fundamntalism has been the biggest obsticle to GLBT issues. And if they control the writing of the history books, they'll probably get away with it.

Science, when I was in school, they went over a very basic version of science; they didn't specifically mention evolution, but they didn't seem to go out of their way ti exclude it, either. At least that was the case in high school. College, different story; the first sentence of my first year college biology book said that evolution is the foundation to all biology and without it, biology doesn't make sense at all. And this is a college in Texas and this was the book that was being used just 3 years ago. So as much as they're fucking around with high schools, they aren't able to do the same damage to the colleges.

Just..... I've heard several Republicans speak out and say that they don't want their party to be known as the stupid party and I can't blame them. It would help their cause, though, if Republicans weren't pushing their political agenda in lieu of accurate information.