Taxpayers fund schools that says humans and dinosaurs lived together!!

EdwardHeisler · 2018-07-01 20:38:41

So what knucklehead will defend this taxation? Ed Heisler

Florida private schools’ curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together
By Leslie Postal, Beth Kassab & Annie Martin / Orlando Sentinel
July 1, 2018

ORLANDO — Some private schools in Florida that rely on public funding teach students that dinosaurs and humans lived together, that God’s intervention prevented Catholics from dominating North America and that slaves who “knew Christ” were better off than free men who did not.

The lessons taught at these schools come from three Christian publishing companies whose textbooks are popular on many of about 2,000 campuses that accept, and often depend on, nearly $1 billion in state scholarships, or vouchers.

At the Orlando Sentinel’s request, educators from Florida colleges and school districts reviewed textbooks and workbooks from these publishers, looking at elementary reading and math, middle school social studies and high school biology materials.

They found numerous instances of distorted history and science lessons that are outside mainstream academics. The books denounce evolution as untrue, for example, and one shows a cartoon of men and dinosaurs together, telling students the biblical Noah likely brought baby dinosaurs onto his ark. The science books, they added, seem to discourage students from doing experiments or even asking questions.

“Students who have learned science in this kind of environment are not prepared for college experiences,” said Cynthia Bayer, a biology lecturer at the University of Central Florida who reviewed the science books. “They would be intellectually disadvantaged.”

The social studies books downplay the horrors of slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans, they said. One book, in its brief section on the civil rights movement, said that “most black and white southerners had long lived together in harmony” and that “power-hungry individuals stirred up the people.”

The books are rife with religious and political opinions on topics such as abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act, which one labels a “radical social agenda.” They disparage religions other than Protestant Christianity and cultures other than those descended from white Europeans. Experts said that was particularly worrisome given that about 60 percent of scholarship students are black or Hispanic.

Books from all three publishers — Abeka, BJU Press and Accelerated Christian Education, or ACE — also offer easier academics compared with what Florida requires in its public schools, said the experts from UCF, the University of Florida, Rollins College and the Seminole and Volusia county school districts.

The Florida Department of Education does not track the curriculum used by the 140,000 students who attend private schools on state vouchers. In fact, Florida law prohibits the department from asking about or regulating academics at these schools.

The Sentinel surveyed the 151 private schools newly approved by the education department to take scholarships for the 2017-18 school year. Seventy-five of the schools provided information about their curriculum either on their websites or when contacted by phone, and 30 of those, or about 40 percent, reported Abeka, BJU or or ACE was a part of their academic offerings.

In October, the Sentinel published its “Schools Without Rules” series that documented problems in some scholarship schools, including campuses that hired teachers without degrees and with criminal records, that forged fire and health inspection forms, and faced eviction midyear because they failed to pay their bills. Reporters visited 35 Central Florida private schools for that series and found 65 percent used one of the three Christian curricula.

Several private schools that use the curricula defend the texts, including Downey Christian School in east Orange County, which uses all three. More than 90 percent of Downey’s 275 students rely on state scholarships to pay tuition.

http://www.staugustine.com/news/2018070 … d-together

SpaceNut · 2018-07-01 21:15:20

Cave art shows this to be true.....

EdwardHeisler · 2018-07-01 21:42:19

You're right! Here's one of them.

And here's an actual picture taken just a few years before J.C. was born!

What more proof does one need?

kbd512 · 2018-07-02 03:12:38

EdwardHeisler,

What knucklehead thinks any amount of mental masturbation over what happened before humans started writing things down will change what happened? Why does this even matter in the religion of the anti-social scientists?

CDC says that most of the people refusing to vaccinate their children are liberal regressives who voted for former President Obama, yet you choose to spend your free time posting pictures of Fred Flintstone, so I wonder what that says about you. WaPo says we shouldn't jump to conclusions and engages in that famous "whataboutism" because the Amish or Orthodox Jews follow the same nonsense. The people claiming to believe in science don't follow their own beliefs, much like some of the people claiming to be Christians. To an atheist, this is hardly news.

"They found numerous instances of distorted history and science lessons that are outside mainstream academics." - Mainstream academics once taught that people were superior or inferior based upon their skin color. It was even given a scientific-sounding term. They called their racism "eugenics". History has been distorted by every person who tried to use it to justify their ideology, which would be nearly everyone.

eugenics (noun) - The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.

So eugenics was "perverted" by the Nazis, but racist abortion advocates like Margaret Sanger and her kkk friends were engaging in the "science" of improving the human population through "selective breeding". Hmm...

"Sanger's eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods, and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, as well as compulsory segregation or sterilization for the "profoundly retarded".[115][116] Sanger wrote, "we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."[117] In personal correspondence she expressed her sadness about the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program; and donated to the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda.[116] In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain with able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment.[118][119]

Margaret Sanger justified her decision to speak to a Ku Klux Klan group by explaining, "to me any aroused group is a good group."[120]:366–367 She was closely associated with one of the most influential and extreme racist[121] authors in America in the 1920s and 1930s, the klansman and Nazi sympathizer Lothrop Stoddard.[122]"

Sure, Margie. Whatever gets you going in the morning. The rest of us generally try to stay away from "aroused groups" of kkk and nazis.

"The books are rife with religious and political opinions on topics such as abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act, which one labels a “radical social agenda.” They disparage religions other than Protestant Christianity and cultures other than those descended from white Europeans." - In other words, these schools teach what the muslims that our liberal regressive friends want to import into our country teach to their children. Science says that 90%+ of the species that ever lived on this planet disappeared before humans ever existed, never mind the Endangered Species Act. Why do we need an "Endangered Species Act" when most of the species that existed became extinct before humans existed? Are humans retroactively responsible for what happened naturally, according to science, before they existed?

“Students who have learned science in this kind of environment are not prepared for college experiences,” said Cynthia Bayer, a biology lecturer at the University of Central Florida who reviewed the science books. “They would be intellectually disadvantaged.” - Students who have attended public schools are unprepared for college. Students who have attended college are unprepared for real jobs. The ideologically motivated pot would like to inform the ideologically motivated kettle that it is indeed black. When she says "intellectually disadvantaged", I think she really means "ideologically different". Some of her students don't share her ideology and that's a major problem for ideologically motivated people like her (and you, apparently).

As an atheist, I look for evidence that something is true. If I can't find any evidence or enough evidence to conclude something with relative certainty, then I simply say that the evidence is inconclusive and move on with the rest of my life. I could be completely wrong about "god", but I've seen no evidence for the existence of god. Until I do, I refuse to believe in any sky wizards. Anyone else who believes in god is welcome to do so, just as long as they don't try to force their beliefs upon me. Religious people teaching their children their religion doesn't fall into that category.

EdwardHeisler · 2018-07-02 07:57:27

Hey SpaceNut!

Knucklehead took the bait!

He enjoys a little mental masturbation in the morning. Too bad we don't have audio. He could flap his jaws!

He's easy.

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kbd512 · 2018-07-02 15:16:10

Hey EdwardHeisler!

You sure did. Hook, line, and sinker!

The media wrote one of their propaganda pieces, you ate it up because you like the taste of their brand of crap, and then you regurgitated it all over this website, as if there weren't enough other places on the internet for you to spew your hatred of anyone who doesn't share your "idiology". There's a new word for you. That's the combination of idiocy and ideology that your belief system represents. I know regressives love making things up, so there you go.

I never knew that my responses to your brain droppings got you going. Perhaps you're a member of one of those "aroused groups" that Margie liked to talk to so much, even if you hate different people for different reasons.

SpaceNut · 2018-07-02 17:09:42

The books denounce evolution as untrue, for example, and one shows a cartoon of men and dinosaurs together, telling students the biblical Noah likely brought baby dinosaurs onto his ark.

Most of the biblical books can be dated to the scientific measurements of factural information as to what is stated in the words that it contains.

Some are written in sybolism while others are straight to the word of the day as each chapter was written by different individuals.

So dinosaurs being millions of years in the past as compared to the ark being in the thousands of years makes it little more than ideology, lacking fact and an attempt to blur the lines in falsehood.

There are many a flood story as recorded in many places of the world all with different names and seemingly near the same time frame.

So is the http://www.staugustine.com paper cridible or not? It just may be a little of both as for the articles that it contains seem factual and somewhat false based on the home page which seems to be for sales of papers just like the enquirer, Sun, and others.

CDC says that most of the people refusing to vaccinate their children

This has more to do with what people have seen as a connection to autism, religious beliefs and other such.

I do feel that there is a timing of them that can trigger the underlying near chance of being autistic as I have both cases in family children in that the out come was 50/50 chance of getting the shots early and later by a month that tracked with who was and whom was not autistic. So more data and further study is needed but overall the shots do as promised and help in later life.

SpaceNut · 2018-07-03 16:32:47

This is another example of the education system in the US.

What are we in a time warp.....

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New York City Private School Under Fire For Reinstating Racial Segregation

$45,000-per-year private school in uproar over plan to 'segregate' students by race

Segregation Is Still Alive at These Christian Schools
Diversity is sorely lacking at many private Christian schools, some of which were originally founded to keep blacks out.

Judge tosses Detroit schools case, says no right to literacy asserted that the U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee a fundamental right but agreed in his 40-page ruling that "when a child who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting injury — and so does society."

This maybe be just hidden as a educational goal in civil or state rights under the agency...

Terraformer · 2018-07-04 03:54:19

Well, the push to restore segregation hasn't been coming from the right, but from the left. It's the (batshit insane) left who have been insisting that white people should keep out of "non-white spaces", and that "People of Color" can only relate to other PoCs. It sounds from what the school was saying that they've been listening to those claims and made the mistake of taking them seriously.

SpaceNut · 2018-07-04 08:45:22

Now I can see dropping the quota diversity or allowing more flexibility to the numbers to whom can attend a venue of education. I also think that it is time to end the questions as to what race you are from all forms as they are not needed to make sure minorities get a fair shake any longer.
We all are of color according to the color spectrum some at one end, some at the other and many in between...

SpaceNut · 2018-07-04 20:01:37

The ink is Black the page is white but it seems that we can not tell the difference when it comes to right and wrong as Woman calls the police on a black representative campaigning in Oregon

Luckily a seemingly very proud sheriff got the call arrived
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She praised the deputy who responded for being professional, and said she asked him if she could meet the woman who made the call, but she was not available.
"The officer called her, we talked and she did apologize," Bynum said, without specifying the race of the caller.

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