"School Choice: Taxpayer-Funded Creationism, Bigotry, and Bias," a new video by Rachel Tabachnick that explains how school choice dangerously sneaks around constitutional barriers that are supposed to protect our children from being indoctrinated in government-sponsored religions. (CARL WAS THIS YOUR QUOTE????OR DID YOU ET IT ELSEWHERE)
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An editorial by Josie Byzek about the School choice video.
Using clips and readings from actual "school choice" approved textbooks, Tabachnick succeeds in demonstrating how extreme some of these teachings have become.
In one clip, the narrator reads this from a text book used "Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years."
Beyond being unconstitutional for taxpayers to fund such an overt and narrow Christian view that's trying to pass itself off as science lessons, it's anti-intellectual. How can we compete in our globalized economy with kids from other nations who are learning how to splice cells if our scientists believe at one time people lived on a sort-of "Land of the Lost" planet?
Of course, text books are quoted that claim there is no such thing as global warming or climate change and there's the gratuitous swipe at Catholics in one text book that certain types of fundamentalists just can't seem to resist.
Seeing all of these quotes gathered together are beyond disturbing, they're collectively a threat to our constitution. The news clips, too, demonstrating how far creationism has been allowed to creep into curriculums via "school choice," are chilling to anyone who supports the U.S. Constitution.
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