[atlaw]

Why, teaching kids to reason would undermine their socialist agenda. How can Publick screwels be right in evolution but wrong in all their other agendas? (2+2 = 5, ok if that's the answer that makes you feel good...)

Well this is certainly odd. The battle cry of the creationists is "present all sides, even if our side has nothing to do with science" and "let the children decide." This is, of course, a thinly disguised variation of the very "children's self-esteem" agenda you are decrying above.

"Feel good" curricula is no more appropriate in science classes than it is in math or history.

[Terriergal]

uhh.... nope. I have no problem with presenting kids with FACTS. (e.g. 2+2 = 5) but science nowadays does not do that. I have NO problem with teaching evolution AND creation. In fact I regularly make my kids watch evolution specials on PBS and they have it in their Christian school textbooks. But I present both sides.

I said nothing about making the 'kid feel good.' IN fact, Creationism tends to do the opposite by implying there might be Someone out there more powerful than men. That tends to make people feel bad about ... things they should feel bad about. So far I have one girl that understands my point, and one that probably could care less. So it's not that I'm indoctrinating them very successfully when I have got a 50/50 success percentage. (the youngest is too young to understand yet).