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Good! The sneaking of fabian creationism into our science classes won't be a federal mandate for a while yet.
1 posted on 12/31/2001 1:12:04 PM PST by jennyp
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Cre/Evo list BUMP
2 posted on 12/31/2001 1:12:28 PM PST by jennyp
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On another thread I voice my opinion on government supported art. The taxpayers should not pay for the support of artist.

The same can be said about government support education. Why should a taxpayer of one area pay for the education expense of children in another area? This would include cross town, let alone from one state to another.

Pooling the money and then redistributing it (with various cuts being taken out along the way) only assures those in charge there will be no real accountability.

Most problems concerning education could be solved if the financial responsibility for education was returned to the local area (where the accountability would follow).

The local School District would collect the money, hire the teachers, buy the books, maintain the schools and set the curricular. If they were not able to educate little Johnny, or were attempting to teach things the parents did not want taught in the schools they would be voted out of office.

As it is now, everyone points to someone else as the cause, or the reason they do what they do. Who do you fire?

Anyway that is what I think -

3 posted on 12/31/2001 1:33:40 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: jennyp
On another thread I voice my opinion on government supported art. The taxpayers should not pay for the support of artist.

The same can be said about government support education. Why should a taxpayer of one area pay for the education expense of children in another area? This would include cross town, let alone from one state to another.

Pooling the money and then redistributing it (with various cuts being taken out along the way) only assures those in charge there will be no real accountability.

Most problems concerning education could be solved if the financial responsibility for education was returned to the local area (where the accountability would follow).

The local School District would collect the money, hire the teachers, buy the books, maintain the schools and set the curricular. If they were not able to educate little Johnny, or were attempting to teach things the parents did not want taught in the schools they would be voted out of office.

As it is now, everyone points to someone else as the cause, or the reason they do what they do. Who do you fire?

Anyway that is what I think -

4 posted on 12/31/2001 1:34:47 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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Hmmm-let's-try-this-again BUMP.
6 posted on 12/31/2001 2:39:04 PM PST by jennyp
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The original Santorum amendment said:

"It is the sense of the Senate that:

(1) good science education should prepare students to distinguish the data or testable theories of science from philosophical or religious claims that are made in the name of science; and

(2) where biological evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why the subject generates so much continuing controversy, and should prepare the students to be informed participants in public discussions regarding the subject."

This would have been a good thing, people actually learning the difference between science and religion.

The downside would be that none of these crevo threads would exist.

8 posted on 12/31/2001 2:50:10 PM PST by nimdoc
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Funny that you should celebrate the defeat of a conservative Senator's proposal on a conservative website. It's a perfect example of the Clintonian strategy, which he really never had the strength to bring off, of using wedge issues to demonstrate to Republican and conservative constituencies, that their representatives did not have the power or will to do things for them, or to prevent bad things from being done to them. Thus the choice of the NRA and pro-life issues to beat up on Republicans for 8 years. Perfect voter suppression strategy--"they can't do anything for us, why get excited about voting?" Not far behind is the "Creationist" constituency for whom Big Media constantly uses to try to heap scorn upon Republican candidates. And you anoint, of all people, as keepers of the flame of freedom-- the NEA.Your code word of "fabian creationism," I presume, though I choose not to spend time researching it, is "intelligent design." And you're right, you'd better keep that out of the classroom, because it makes such intuitive sense, that it is probably even now, even with the full weight of the scorn of the politically correct establishment, like yourself, censoring it, the de facto predominant theory of origins of the American people of any and all political leanings or cultural backgrounds.
16 posted on 12/31/2001 5:15:40 PM PST by gusopol3
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