ha!

Ginger's picture

New Game plan: (well, more like old game plan, but with more planning) I'm going to send an email posing as a concerned parent to scpie, a fundementalist organisation that is pushing for the schools to be complete southern baptist training grounds. I'm going say that i have children, am debating whether to homeschool them or let them attend the state schools because of the "normalisation of the homosexual lifestyle" that could be "unfairly pushed on my children", and that basically i want to know what the boundaries are of what a teacher can legally get away with, because poor-old-me is not sure that the principle in my area isnt concerned enough with the "instillment of proper and natural morals" in his school to entrust that he will take care of things on his own.

That way, i can test the waters (noone has ever really tried to actively oppose this part of the education system-- theyve mostly been fighting for things like allowing evolution to be covered in the textbooks-- as long as its not in class--(that only got approved last month!) so there isnt much information that has been gathered through the trial and error of others and i cant tell where the clearcut boundaries are.)

also, the founder of this fundemental group has just been elected as the chair of our state board of education. so not only should my email appeal to her because its basically an email from herself say ten years ago (she homeschooled her kids so that they wouldnt be exposed to our HORRIBLY IMMORAL school curriculum.), but she will be more than well informed, and it will serve as a litmus test as to how the laws may actually end up being read.

oh, and I think i might apply as a teacher intern for summer school here?

and so begins the long journey to stir things up in gilbert, south carolina.

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cynical1inthecorner's picture

...wait, they don't teach

...wait, they don't teach evolution in class?! Holy fuck. That's freaking creepy.

I would introduce them all to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the ultimate argument against creationism. Honestly, it really scares me that creationism is taught in schools, never mind that evolution isn't! For god's sake, people, creationism isn't science!

Ginger's picture

no theyre just like "okay

no theyre just like
"okay kida, theres this thing called evolution through natural selection that this guy darwin came up with, but i cant really say if he was right or not. go home and talk about it with your parents or your priest. were not allowed to discuss it here."

um, way to educate?

Lol-taire's picture

jesus, or not. Good luck.

jesus, or not. Good luck.

When I was at school we had a representative from
Answers in Genesis
invited for a bit of blood sport to give a lecture. The questions and answers session afterwards was a bit Christians to the lions.

But... but to have them in charge...

Good luck education. And gays. And sanity. And you with your scheme.

They also had a lecture from Peter Tatchell, but that was the year before I joined.