In one camp are conservative Christians and their champion, the Texas State Board of Education; in the other are politically radical multiculturalists and their de facto champion, President Barack Obama. The two competing visions couldn’t be more different. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unfortunately, whichever side wins — your kid ends up losing.
That’s because this war is for the power to dictate what our children are taught — and, by extension, how future generations of Americans will view the world. Long gone are the days when classrooms were for learning: now each side sees the public school system as a vast indoctrination camp in which future culture-warriors are trained. The problem is, two diametrically opposed philosophies are struggling for supremacy, and neither is willing to give an inch, so the end result is extremism, no matter which side temporarily comes out on top.
Both visions are grotesque and unacceptable — and yet they are currently the only two choices on the national menu.
via Zombie » Ideological War Spells Doom for America’s Schoolkids.
*Sigh* yeah because our kids simply can’t be shown both sides and left to make their own choices using their reasoning skills… and then people wonder why US schools suck so much
I assert that the reasoning of kids, even teenagers, just isn’t that great most of the time. Add to that, “smart is not enough, you have to actually know things.” If you get taught things that aren’t disprovable, and you believe them, then all the reasoning in the world is unlikely to help.