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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKids who got a fundamentalist Christian "education" as 4th graders in 2013. . .
were able to vote November. Here is what they were taught:
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Kids who got a fundamentalist Christian "education" as 4th graders in 2013. . . (Original Post)
Stargleamer
Jan 12
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The Madcap
(849 posts)1. If real...
Absolutely shameful.
Stargleamer
(2,327 posts)6. See DBoon's (no. 5) response below n/t
The Madcap
(849 posts)13. I'm so sad
For the kids. If they can be taught this craziness, what else are they hearing? The smart ones must know they're being lied to.
Clouds Passing
(3,449 posts)2. 8. True or False T Rexs and Velociraptors were household pets.
Irish_Dem
(62,819 posts)3. Being smart and well educated is a thing of the past.
A quaint old relic of the past.
Think. Again.
(21,156 posts)4. Why is that titled a "science" quiz and not a "bible" quiz?
DBoon
(23,389 posts)5. Snopes says this is real
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/4th-grade-science-quiz/
The title of the quiz was the same as that of a DVD produced by the group Answers in Genesis and hewed closely to the material presented therein, including the admonition that "If someone tells you the earth is millions of years old, what should be your reply? 'Were you there?'" and the reference to the Bible as "The History Book of the Universe."
The image was of the purported quiz publicized in a post to Reddit's r/atheism forum, made by a user who maintained that it was a real quiz given at a private religious school in South Carolina, and that he was shown the quiz by the student's parent and took a picture of it with his iPhone. He declined to identify the school, stating that "I am not publicizing it since it is a small school and I don't want any publicity that might reflect badly on the kid" and "I don't want the kid to get in trouble, so I am keeping that under my hat until June when school is over," although he did allow that the school was "North of Greer, SC."
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We noted that there is a school, Blue Ridge Christian Academy, that meets all of the criteria described above: a private Christian Academy which is both in the Greenville area of South Carolina and north of Greer, which offers "science lessons [that] are creation-based," and which includes Latin in its fourth-grade curriculum. Blue Ridge didn't respond to our inquiry, but Ken Ham and Mark Looy of Answers in Genesis (AiG) confirmed in the AiG blog that the quiz did indeed originate with that school:
I checked too - not to put down the OP but to make sure we weren't spreading misinformation.
Buckeyeblue
(5,770 posts)8. Isn't that the general area that protected Eric Rudolph for years?
These people have their own version of christianity that fits their world views and bigotries. Remember, man made god in his own image.
JanMichael
(25,400 posts)9. Hmm. Looks like we get more vegans out of it.
EnergizedLib
(2,326 posts)10. Kids might fail school
Which is tough, but worse is when schools fail kids.
Aristus
(68,935 posts)11. Great. My Blue State tax dollars are going to go to some squalid red state
to make sure these brainless losers have plenty of meth and Bud Lite.
brettdale
(12,669 posts)12. Im guessing the flintstones
Was a doco?