Christian parents suddenly decide secular education is better
Forget about “teach the controversy” and all that stuff about allowing teachers the “freedom of speech” to share their religious opinions. According to the LA Times, Christian parents want the public...
View ArticleTaking Back the Public Schools
Writing for The New American, Sam Blumenfeld has a plan for taking back the public schools from “the socialists” who, according to Blumenfeld, have been engaging in a decades-long plot to produce...
View ArticleClay County schools lose a good man
The Florida Times-Union reports that the Clay County school district has lost an unusually talented superintendent. Ben Wortham closed his office door behind him last week ending a 43-year journey that...
View ArticleBible distribution program in FL
The Christian Post reports that a conservative Christian group has begun a probably-illegal Bible distribution program in local high schools in the area. Volunteers from a Florida-based group have...
View ArticlePublic schools “terrified” of creationism
Writing for the “Communities” section of the Washington Times, one Frank Kacer asks, Why are public schools terrified of examining evolution & creation? If evolution is true, there’s a simple way...
View ArticleNone of this namby-pamby “Intelligent Design” stuff here
Jack Wellman, at the Christian Crier blog, wants creationism taught in the public schools. And to his credit, he doesn’t try and hide behind a facade of pseudo-scientific “intelligent design” either....
View ArticleAccurate labelling
With all this intelligent design and duplicitous “teach the controversy” stuff floating around, it’s been a while since I’ve seen a good old-fashioned, unadulterated creationist screed. I recently came...
View ArticleAnti-evolution bill nixed by lawmakers
Good news from South Dakota. As the Argus Leader reports: Senate Bill 114 was killed last week. More accurately, it was deferred by the state senate’s education committee to the “41st legislative day,”...
View ArticleIs free college the answer?
According to Salon.com, plank number one in Bernie Sanders’ presidential platform is a plan to provide free college tuition at four-year public colleges and universities, funded by a tax on Wall Street...
View ArticleFudge the facts and declare victory
You may have heard about the recent church/state clash in Colorado, where the Delta County high schools and middle schools were distributing Gideon Bibles to the students, and thus were required to...
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