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[quote=renault;29229584]How can anybody argue against the proven fact that public schools are dumbing down our kids more and more with each successive generation? This is why home-schooling is more important than ever before.
Check out this test given to 8th graders in 1931 West Virginia. There were no true/false questions, no multiple-choice questions. I'm certain most C-D posters would flunk-
This is not an example of dumbing down education. This is an example of the lack of education.
While I can see the argument against multiple choice tests, I also think that the critical thinking aspect is covered in other areas. Think about children in your public schools right now. They have 2-3 different texts for each class written by opposing authors. They have to read opposing views (a chapter from each book), tear them apart, and write 10 page papers on it...on a weekly basis. It's not all about tests.
I am not seeing that as common anywhere but its more likely handed dwon from past eyars teachign and that had pe retty good results form what i see lookig at education now and its results.
If I was from NJ I wouldn't be too quick to put down other places.
You're missing the point. We have children that are learning that people coexisted with dinosaurs and if anyone questions it to ask them if they were there. How can anyone tolerate this?
The OP may not be able to make this up, but if you are going to make the suggestion that a fourth grader is being graded on this type of scientific curriculum, people better give names so that we know exactly who to blame when we are behind in science scores.
Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.
This damn ignorance about the South is getting more than a little sickening by some people on this board. My advice to you would be to find out what is going on in your region of the country, and you may find the same things occur where you live. Guess what? It does.
Nope. Not here.
OTTAWA - The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed.
"Quebec children are legally required to follow the provincial curriculum ... but these evangelical schools teach their own courses on creationism and sexuality that don't follow the Quebec curriculum," said Pierre Daoust, director-general of the Commission Scolaire au Coeur-des-Vallees in Thurso, Que.
Mr. Daoust's complaint sparked the province-wide investigation.
Quebec law requires school boards to assure the Ministry of Education that every child between the ages six of and 16, with the exception of home-schooled children, receives an adequate education, he said. But the 20 elementary and high school students who attend a school operated by Eglise Evangelique near Saint-Andre-Avellin, Que., are being educated according to a Bible-based curriculum and their high school diplomas will not be recognized anywhere in Canada, he said.
The Catholic Church recognized evolution aeons ago. As far as I know Catholic schools everywhere teach evolution.
The Bible doesn't give a specific age to the Earth and what is referred to as a day (yom) in ancient Hebrew is literally a point in time or a period of time to include infinity. Since ancient Hebrew only has some 8,700 words, it's easy to imply meaning to ancient Hebrew that wasn't intended.
What I find to be more relevant is Genesis' description of what we now know was the Big Bang and the correct order of the emergence of life forms on Earth beginning with plant life, sea creatures, birds, land animals and finally man.
FTR, kids coming out of these church schools always out perform the public school kids by a full grade level, and this even in science.
I most sincerely hope this question, posed by the O.P., and the paper pictured, are some sort of a hoax. If not, it might, I suppose be called 'religious education', but it is certainly not science education.
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