Hijacked from the freeps: We're winning and it's showing!

[aQuArius]

Rapid growth seen in number of conservative Christian schools SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Frustration with public education seems to be growing among the nation’s Southern Baptists, with supporters of Christian schools and home schooling arguing that if God is absent from the classroom then their children should leave, too. The number of conservative Christian schools grew by nearly 11 percent between 1999-2000 and 2001-2002, to 5,527, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s latest statistics. Earlier this year, a resolution proposed at the national meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention — which guides the nation’s largest Protestant denomination — urged parents to withdraw their children from “officially Godless” “government schools” in favor of religious education.


Its win-win situation! The fundamentalist religious hypocrites are taking their kids out of the schools we fund! Thank Goddess!

[searchingforlight]

1. They were in control of public schools at one time.

In the fifties my family moved to a small town in Texas. I was 11 years old, shy and my knees were shaking on the first day. The teacher in my class asked me what my favorite Bible verse was. I told her that we didn't have a Bible in our home and she told the whole class that I was going to Hell.

Little did I know that a Texan would bring me hell on earth forty years later.

[Dark]

3. What a bitch. (eom)

[aQuArius]

4. I was raised in Mormon capital USA

I know what its like to be the religious minority :hi:

[baldguy]

2. Neocon fundies want to END publicly-funded education.

[Dark]

5. I pity the gay kids.

I can relate, going to conservative christian schools all my life, being told that you're fucked up for being born and going straight (no pun intended) to hell everyday.

[CO Liberal]

6. I Was in the Religious Minority....

....as a Catholic in suburban New Jersey, whose parents did not send us to Catholic school. The Protestant kids gave us Catholics grief because we didn't say the entire Lord's Prayer. (We stopped after "deliver us from evil".) Thay gave the Jewish kids grief just on general principles (probably because they learned that from their parents).

I was so glad when they stopped prayer in school. I was in Fourth Grade when the Supreme Court made that ruling.

[searchingforlight]

7. Yes, it's all about showing us the error of our ways.

Glad you survived it.

[Renew Deal]

8. They are going to get a good fundamentalist education.

I would like to see the differences with the Saudi schools.

[WilliamPitt]

9. 'Taliban' translates to 'religious student'

So there you go.

[Cobalt Violet]

10. I don't know if I like the idea of a future generation of morons.

n/t

[CO Liberal]

11. Look At It This Way

The national decline in SAT scores over the past 30 years occured at the same time as a rise in conservatism.

Coincidence? I don't think so. I believe that conservatism is a mixture of ignorance, selfishness, and paranoia.

[Cobalt Violet]

12. I don't think it a coincidence either.

Conservatives do well with the uneducated and they know it. So I would expect to see a move away for all education except religion as being acceptable. When they say "elite" I think they mean people who can read, write, and at least do basic math.