Oklahoma public school under fire for field trip to out-of-state creationist zoo
Source: Raw Story
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is accusing an Oklahoma school district of repeatedly violating the separation of church and state since the beginning of the 2014 school year.
The most serious allegation was that students attending Skiatook public schools were taken on school-sanctioned field trips to the Safari Zoological Park in Caney, Kansas. Despite its innocuous name, the park’s mission “is to show the awesomeness of our God in the individual wonder and uniqueness of all His creation.”
It continues by claiming that God “has revealed to us through nature and creation that we are more than an evolved matter over millions of years, but made fearfully and wonderfully in His image, with an eternal soul. That through the will of free choice man brought sin into the world, but by the love of God he redeemed man back to himself through the life, death, and resurrection of His son Jesus Christ.”
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/oklahoma-public-school-under-fire-for-field-trip-to-out-of-state-creationist-zoo/
Really? I guess that's why they elect people like James Inhofe.
If private schools what to teach this idiocy to their students, have at it,
but when a public school does this, the school district administration needs to
be fired all the way down to the teachers that allowed this to happen.
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Shawnee feed mill, the world class zoo in Oklahoma City, the museums around the state capitol, the state capitol...
I remember the riots when they tried to bus "the black kids" - also known as our neighbors across town - to our high school on the South Side, parents showing up to disseminate a little hate among their kids and others, the rocking of the bus, the scared shitless kids huddled inside a Dairy Queen as the police and fire trucks arrived.
Was just reading a WPA report from Oklahoma, 1937, where they were bemoaning the loss of Federal funds for the adult education programs, where they were teaching people how to better their living conditions.
This was one of the most Progressive states in the Union - people literally were being killed by the environmental conditions and starvation, and fed investment saved a lot of lives. Governor Murray - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Murray - called the state guard out to open up a bridge Texas had closed. And they opened it. 
Made news when he financed a state program without fed help to create a pioneering state relief program, and became well known for his populist views.
Well, a populist if you were white. He pushed for Jim Crow laws as well as some other stuff early in his career, before he returned from Bolivia, don't know if that moderated later.
The undercurrent of racism has always been strong in that state. Civil rights struggles took place there and advanced the cause, but the town called "the Black Wall Street", the community of Greenwood in Tulsa, was attacked by whites in a riot, destroyed.
It's a weird history, that one.
On edit: Oh, yeah, they sent me to a private Baptist School for a couple of years. It was so small I don't think we ever had a field trip. 
Good academics, but pro war and white was the textbook du jour of the day for most of the country. Many of those minds, once trained, will never, ever change.
And they teach their kids the same exact things.
