Yesterday, Kottke posted some newly found photos of the Titanic that surfaced recently.
You can go look at them here. They’re great.
After posting them, he posted a collection of tweets from kids who didn’t know the Titanic was a real event. The news made me snicker at first, but the more I think about it, the angrier I get.
Seriously?
There are religious groups that want to put prayer and faith back in schools. I understand the argument, and there was a day when I argued for the same thing. But those things don’t lend themselves to improvement in knowledge. They appeal to people who think prayer benefits kids … when there’s nothing that supports a positive or negative effect.
How about putting reality in schools? How about putting history back in schools?
Here is the screen cap of tweets:
Be careful what you ask for, Jeremy.
The same asshats that want prayer and religion back in schools are the same that want to rewrite history itself.
(http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-national/conservatives-on-texas-school-board-revising-curriculum-change-history)
In the immortal words of Bender Rodriguez, “We’re boned.”
Why not teach Marxism in Schools. Why not teach Islam in Schools, Wht not Teach Satanism in Schools? – I could understand that the Christians would be saying NO NO NO. But Christians think they have a devine right to have Christianity taught in Schools.
In Australia we have a rule that separates church from state and we are a Secular country. I was kind of thinking that the same is the case in the USA.
I’m all in favour of teaching children good morals behaviour and habits, but Christians do not have a monopoly on good moral standards.
In fact I cannot understand the so called Christians who have a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other. Thank God we don’t see this in Australia.