[metmom]

GR: But if we're going to have public schools, then we have to teach science in science class.

SFD: Says who? Who pays the taxes? I personally think whoever pays for it should have some say... otherwise it is fascism...

Which is exactly the biggest reason that they earn the title of *liberal*.

Interesting thing is, homeschoolers and private schoolers, by and large teach creation in addition to evolution, something the public school students don't have the opportunity to do, and yet homeschoolers and private schoolers consistently outperform the public school students in standardized testing and SAT/ACT test scores.

The evidence is out there that teaching creation is NOT going to hurt the education of the students, no matter what evos say.

I find it rather ironic that evos are so big on evidence and proof when it comes to the ToE, but act like they never heard of the concepts before, when it comes to demonstrating that teaching creation won't hurt the education of students in schools.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Christians aren’t the only ones who believe in a creationist scenario either...

Muslim filth believe in a creationist scenario, but so do some of my good Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist friends. (I don’t have any Muslim friends, nor do I care to.)

[GunRunner]

Interesting thing is, homeschoolers and private schoolers, by and large teach creation in addition to evolution, something the public school students don't have the opportunity to do, and yet homeschoolers and private schoolers consistently outperform the public school students in standardized testing and SAT/ACT test scores.

Parents who homeschool their kids are taking on a huge and active responsibility for their children's educational future. I think its a self fulfilling prophecy that if you take the average study habits and grades of a group of homeschooled kids versus the average study habits and grades of public school kids, the homeschoolers will win every time; the subject matter is really irrelevant.

I assume math, grammer, geography, and most other subject matter are pretty much identical to what is taught in all school settings; public, private, and homeschool.

One small facet of education, in this case evolution vs. creationism, is unlikely to negatively affect a rather powerful force in the child's academic life, that being the commitment of the parent.

Now, there's obviously a problem for the homeschooled kid if he shows up to a college geology class and writes a paper that says all rocks are less than 6,000 years old. But even if the homeschooled kid flunks geology, is it really going to affect his whole academic career?

Unlikely.

He/she is still more likely to be successful on average than the public school kid.