Tennessee passes anti-science theory, and our students can't read
 

Why is the United States falling behind in the world? Why are other countries outstripping us on health, science, technology?

Well, could be things like this ...

Good luck to Tennessee students trying to pass SAT's, gain access to college, and pass basic college science courses. You won't have the knowledge. Face it - Jesus doesn't help you in the science laboratory.

If you can read and understand the questions ...

"American High School students only read at 5th grade level"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1373680.html

Good luck finding a job that pays over $10/hour either way. This makes no difference really. Riot is too stupid to realize that though. She's a micro issue tard.

I have a job that pays far more than $10 an hour, thanks to that education.

Good luck being the unpaid micro-tard :tro: :D

I make more than you sitting at home going to my mailbox 5 days a week. It's called inheritance, something that will be a thing of the past with help from Obama and all of the failures before him.

I went to a private Christain school that did not teach evolution. I passed my SAT's but I chose to be a jockey instead of going to school. There are alot of my fellow classmates and one's that graduated before me that did not learn about evolution and passed their SAT's and went on to get degree's.
For the record I believe in the process of evolution as most things that survive in this world have had to evolve to do so. I also dont believe that there was just some random bang that created intelligent life.

Hell no - don't want your ability to live off the work of others infringed upon! Damn communists!

They had a choice not to give me the money. It's called freedom. Something you're completely against.

Have a nice day, diploma mill tard. Get to work.

Freedom! Don't let the communists take it away from you! Go to your mailbox. Daily!

It's awesome getting checks in the mail. Especially when it's from my trusty ol' lawyer. The oil production checks are just an added bonus.

I figure if you can be a narcissist and brag about status then I could too. You've got severe entitlement issues and I know it just makes your blood boil that a piece of s.hit like me can make more than you just being genetically superior in about every aspect.

It's ok. The mutts can be successful too. And you should know this since you work with them on a daily basis.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

College professors have, for some years now, been astounded at the lack of basic education students are showing when they enter college. Science, reading, math. They are incompetent. Other countries are excelling.

Calling the bible "science" and teaching it as such is beyond absurd, and just worsens that void.

I don't anybody who went to a Catholic high school. I do know that the Catholic grade school where I grew up taught science, and students who went there were pretty smart in junior high.

There was a time when religion and science were taught separately, and both were respected for what they were. Science didn't preclude religion, nor the other way around.

I think it's wonderful you have an income you can depend upon. That's great for you.

However, why do you think that confers you any "status"? You're still just a chronically rude swearing angry douche.

I've been blessed by intelligence through my bloodline. You are a phony social climbing witch who is trying to trick people into believing you're a baller and an intellectual. Vets are getting killed in this economy.

I laugh at your reality.

As I said, you're still just an angry, rude, swearing douche. Good luck with that :tro:

And you're an old, unattractive middle class vet who gets owned daily on a message board. Trophy that.

I'll vouch for that..:tro:

Signed:
A Fellow Tard..:eek:

If your imaginings about others make you feel better about yourself, go ahead and think it.

Here you go :tro::tro::tro:

C'mon man-if you are one-you set that one up...Who could resist..
I just enjoy watching Riot running you guys around in a circle like the Westminster dog show...Like George Costanza says, 'I got the hand'..

You just come off as borderline creepy and desperate. You really offer nothing but that, actually.

I dont know a whole lot about public school or what they teach, my only experiance that is first hand is that my brother who was in public school until 8th grade couldnt read 5th grade English and that in one school year in private school he was reading his grade level. I wasnt taught evolution but I learned about it by being on the family farm and seeing things with my own eyes. I dont feel like I was slighted in anyway by not being taught evolution in school.

Seriously wondering: Did you not have any biology in high school? Or did they just skip getting into genetics and anthropology? (evolution)

I had great public schools where I grew up, was very lucky. Others: not so much, certainly.

Borderline??...I represent that remark!...Gotta go, late for a Mensa meeting..

Yes I took biology its was a requirment for graduation and I also took physics but we did not have a lab for either. The curriculum that I was taught was pretty experimental, you had to be goal orientated and there was alot of focus on your honor. I dont even know if there are schools that even teach it anymore.

So they just skipped the "evolution" part?

Sounds very Socratic, "problem-based learning"- you're lucky, no they don't do that much at all!

I learned about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, it was touched upon not studied.

When I talk to my Catholic friends, there was never (years ago) any problem "teaching science" and "teaching religion" - they were separate but equal.

Now, down here in evangelical land, it's a far different than the city Catholics of my youth. For some reason, you have to deny all rational science to be a "good" religious person. It's crazy.

I dont believe in organized religion no matter what denomination. I liked the school I went to and I loved my teachers. I dont feel like I missed out on anything.

The problem with schools not teaching proper science is that students are not taught how to think critically.

Science is not about what's true; it's about what's observable and what's testable. It's a method of learning. That's what's really frustrating about the whole "Why shouldn't Intelligent Design be taught in Science?" Because, even should it turn out to be true that we're all created by some higher power, Intelligent Design is not testable using the Scientific Method, and therefore, is not Science. There may be set rules about the proper usage of semi-colons, but they don't belong in Math class. Likewise, ID does not belong in Science class. Evolutionary theory, which is observable and testable, does belong.

Of course, I often think our assorted Federal, State and Local governments would prefer that schools not produce students who can think critically, because critical thinking can apply to a lot more than Science.

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A sample high school level reading assessement test (warning if you have slow internet speed, clicking on link will open a short PDF file)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...oBZtbWE1cbS7LQ

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if you look at history, the people in charge have always tried to keep the unwashed masses uneducated. look at the church for centuries (they fought tooth and nail to keep the bible from being printed in the native tongue, even tho many of their own priests only knew the latin they memorized to say mass), look at the moves by many in other countries to prevent girls from going to school...after all, if you keep the women stupid, that keeps half the population under foot right off the bat.


my kids went to public school. all are very educated and very smart. but i did my part to continue their education, providing books and other tools to fill in the blanks where school left off. not sure how much the school taught evolution(i'd wager not much!), but my kids certainly learned about it!