14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

[Locutus]

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

2. Dragons were totally real: "[Is] it possible that a fire-breathing animal really existed? Today some scientists are saying yes. They have found large chambers in certain dinosaur skulls...The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

3. "God used the Trail of Tears to bring many Indians to Christ."—America: Land That I Love, Teacher ed., A Beka Book, 1994

4. Africa needs religion: "Africa is a continent with many needs. It is still in need of the gospel...Only about ten percent of Africans can read and write. In some areas the mission schools have been shut down by Communists who have taken over the government."—Old World History and Geography in Christian Perspective, 3rd ed., A Beka Book, 2004

5. Slave masters were nice guys: "A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well."—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 1991

6. The KKK was A-OK: "[The Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians."—United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2001

7. The Great Depression wasn't as bad as the liberals made it sound: "Perhaps the best known work of propaganda to come from the Depression was John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath...Other forms of propaganda included rumors of mortgage foreclosures, mass evictions, and hunger riots and exaggerated statistics representing the number of unemployed and homeless people in America."—United States History: Heritage of Freedom, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1996

8. SCOTUS enslaved fetuses: "Ignoring 3,500 years of Judeo-Christian civilization, religion, morality, and law, the Burger Court held that an unborn child was not a living person but rather the "property" of the mother (much like slaves were considered property in the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sandford)."—American Government in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1997

9. The Red Scare isn't over yet: "It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism."— American Government in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1997

10. Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson were a couple of hacks: "[Mark] Twain's outlook was both self-centered and ultimately hopeless...Twain's skepticism was clearly not the honest questioning of a seeker of truth but the deliberate defiance of a confessed rebel."—Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University, 2001

"Several of [Emily Dickinson's] poems show a presumptuous attitude concerning her eternal destiny and a veiled disrespect for authority in general. Throughout her life she viewed salvation as a gamble, not a certainty. Although she did view the Bible as a source of poetic inspiration, she never accepted it as an inerrant guide to life."—Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University, 2001

11. Abstract algebra is too dang complicated: "Unlike the 'modern math' theorists, who believe that mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, A Beka Book teaches that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute...A Beka Book provides attractive, legible, and workable traditional mathematics texts that are not burdened with modern theories such as set theory."—ABeka.com

12. Gay people "have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists."—Teacher's Resource Guide to Current Events for Christian Schools, 1998-1999, Bob Jones University Press, 1998

13. "Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations."—Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1999

14. Globalization is a precursor to rapture: "But instead of this world unification ushering in an age of prosperity and peace, as most globalists believe it will, it will be a time of unimaginable human suffering as recorded in God's Word. The Anti-christ will tightly regulate who may buy and sell."—Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1999

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars

[Locutus]

^^

Is that the kind of material that should be included in textbooks funded by taxpayer dollars via a voucher program?  This list doesn't even include the ignorant hippie statements from the other thread.

[me]

That is the most ridulous thing I ever heard.  The left and unions will do anything to get rid of the non unionized and private schools. 

[Bo D]

That is the most ridulous thing I ever heard.  The left and unions will do anything to get rid of the non unionized and private schools.

The left and the unions didn't put that crap in the textbooks.

[Palehorse]

Lying scumbags. It kills me that they are getting away with this obvious pre-conditioning of the sheep. . .

[RC]

Taken out of context, in an attempt to discredit, any school or program not approved by the NEA union thugs. Any thing is better than the government reeducation camps(aka public school).  I have know many Bob Jones grads who have done very well in their lives.  I have known many home schooled, young people who are doing well and far ahead of their public school peers.

[Henry Hawk]

hypocrites....

[Locutus]

hypocrites....

How is anything that's been posted on this thread hypocritical?

[Henry Hawk]

How is anything that's been posted on this thread hypocritical?

Not going to mention any names, but I clearly see it.

[Locutus]

Hypocrisy:

1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not ; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2 : an act or instance of hypocrisy


Not seeing it.

[Henry Hawk]

Lying scumbags.

[Locutus]

That is the most ridulous thing I ever heard.  The left and unions will do anything to get rid of the non unionized and private schools. 

Am I to take it that you approve of taxpayer dollars going to enable a generation of children who have been instructed with the type of information found in the books above?  That's exactly what's happening.  I find that a stretch for even you. 

It has nothing to do with unions, and shouldn't be a left/right issue at all.

I ask again.  Would you approve of your taxpayer dollars in Indiana going to instruct schoolchildren using books like the ones cited above?

[Locutus]

Taken out of context, in an attempt to discredit, any school or program not approved by the NEA union thugs. Any thing is better than the government reeducation camps(aka public school).  I have know many Bob Jones grads who have done very well in their lives.  I have known many home schooled, young people who are doing well and far ahead of their public school peers.

How would you know what context those remarks are in?  They're clearly erroneous (some egregiously erroneous) and taxpayer dollars shouldn't be going to fund material like that.  For the record, I don't think taxpayer dollars should be going to fund/supplement any private educational institution Christian or otherwise.

Let's just try an exercise though.   How do you defend this?  Please tell me how this one isn't erroneous regardless of any  'context' in which it was presented:

1. Dinosaurs and humans probably hung out: "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

[Exterminator]

You're wasting your time, Locutus; note how the least literate and least educated among us immediately came to the forefront to defend those issues with absolutely no consideration of how inane those ideals may be.  They care more about their obviously skewed mentality and agenda than they do about what actually makes sense...to any thinking person.

[Locutus]

I know.  I just thought I would plumb the depths of ignorance to start the weekend.