(January 22, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: That wouldn't be any excuse. My homeschooled 1st grader is currently replicating mendels experiments. My 5th and 6th grade homeschooled kids have already made presentations on selective breeding for 4H...not exactly an association of megamind biologists.
The basic facts of evolutionary biology are simple, inarguable, and accessible to any human being that can breathe.
(fuck, all of them together made a robot bee system in EV3 for STEAM to demonstrate the functional relationship between plants and animals)
There are other skills they gather in public schools. I gathered some, so is my daughter. I stood in the dark watching Sofia playing. This older kid (1 level higher), started to lift her skirt, she pulled down, he tried again then BAM two swift open handed slaps on him. I told the teacher, his dad needed to talk to me. He told me "oh well, he will learn how to treat women eventually."
The teacher has a motivational "I am a kindergarden teacher, what's your superpower?" I suppose it is.