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To: ChetNavVet
I think you should sit your kids down and tell them what YOU belive, and why.

Yep, spend an hour or two doing that, and have their "teachers" spend 14,000 seat hours teaching them that their faith is false.

14 posted on 11/20/2008 6:54:13 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: MrB
......."Yep, spend an hour or two doing that, and have their "teachers" spend 14,000 seat hours teaching them that their faith is false."......

That's why I home schooled my daughter. When she attended Angelina college, her biology teacher just gave up and said " I know what you believe, and I don't have good answers for you, but to pass the course, I have to teach you Darwinism." He stated that he had changed his mind over the years, but this is what he was required to teach them. He had grown weary of arguing with students with non workable ideas. He was convinced Darwinism was a load of crap and was already disproved.

When she went on to Stephen F. Austin college, Her teachers were just the opposite. They insisted that if anyone even questioned the theory, they couldn't pass. She asked a few questions and embarrassed her teacher more or less like Ben Stein did in "Expelled." She just asked how non organic became organic and what mechanism can be used to prove it, and he went apoplectic. She pointed out several instances where the teacher lied or just covered up past mistakes and asked which answer he preferred on the tests.

She passed, but the teacher was pretty much cut off at the knees with the class. They just aren't used to students that can think. It is discouraging to be forced to regurgitate silly answers even when the class has already seen the answer is impossible. Learning just become a farce.

30 posted on 11/20/2008 8:29:30 AM PST by chuckles
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