Believing that there was a wrold flood means that you are too stupid to be any sort of hydrologist. Your understanding of rivers is not as good as it should be. A world flood would have left massive evidence in ever simgle river valley. That it is not there, and that there is clear evidence of how the river has shaped the valley over time, should inform anybody with an understanding of river errosion and deposition that there has never been such an event.
So... belief in a world flood renders one unable to find aquifers, run GIS software, manage water supplies, and analyze precipitation.
Thank you for your insights.
I'm quite serious. I've been watching the encroachment of theocratic underpinnings in public governance for quite a while. This is just the latest.
Again: you don't even know what a theocracy is--not even in the same universe--if you're likening token nods to religious students to the theocracies of this world, past and present.
I can't say I blame you. Without tying "kids can dispute evolution today" to "theocracy tomorrow", who would give a snow leopard's fuzzy white arse about it, right?
So is that the only measure of proper education we should go by? How might it impact their career?
How do you determine what career a child might have so as to then completely tailor the entire grading spectrum to that one choice?
And then what happens when the kid changes his/her mind?
Students should be required to provide the curriculum-approved answer on exams, etc. I don't agree with the board decision to permit answers the organization itself (the school) deems factually incorrect, so long as the questions don't intersect moral issues, e.g. "T/F: people are born homosexual?", which public schools have absolutely no business asking in the first place.
When in Rome, answer as the Romans do. Concerned parents should teach critical thinking to their kids at home: which answers hold up, which have gaps, what does scripture say and not say, etc.
Having said all this, I mention the career aspect because I can't rightly count the number of times I've heard the Dragonflies of the world erroneously heap every flaw, failing, and insufficiently of the US education system on "religious teaching", "dogmatic thinking", etc. This despite the fact that any reasonable person can see the religious/secular clash boils down to a tiny handful of contentions that have precisely zero impact on the careers, success, or performance of 99.999% of students (and I'm probably short some 9's there).
In short: get another scapegoat for your crummy public education system.
