Kansas School Board OKs Science Standards

[David]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

What's the matter with Kansas indeed. This is simply a disgrace. And if it were just some nominal issue, like displaying the ten commandments or something, I'd probably just roll my eyes and move on, but these people are taking the first steps toward destroying the education of millions of children here, and that's just despicable.

I'd like to believe that primary education should be left in the hands of local and state officials, but if this is the **** they're gonna be pulling, there needs to be some kind of federal override option in place. We need to have some kinds of standards here.

Jyqm, I recommend reading Richard Mitchell's essay "The Other Ignorant Army," from Volume V, No. 6 (September 1981) of The Underground Grammarian. I steal from this quite a bit.

The upshot here is that, given the choice between the incompetence of government schooling & the ideologic damage of the Christianist schools (& these may be public schools on paper, but they're Christianist in practice), it's better to go with the former.