Comments on: Sixteen percent of biology teachers teach children intelligent design

By: TXatheist

TXatheist — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it was a couple of months ago but a member of FFRF wrote in and said she was becoming a teacher in the Dallas area and was overwhelmed by the number of training teachers that supported ID.

By: billh

billh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I go to the beginning of school to meet the teachers and find out what exactly they are teaching. I follow up with my child to see if they are straying from the text books. Yanked my daughter out of one science class last year because the teacher was an idiot. Made sure the principle knew exactly what was going on. He sat in on the class to verify what I passed on to him.

That teacher no longer works at that school.

Parents need to stay involved in their kids activities. That is our responsibility as parents.

If more parents paid more attention, this 16% will get reduced quicker.

What does bother me more is the blue lines. yuk...

By: mxracer652

mxracer652 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just another argument for vouchers.

By: chas-in-the-box

chas-in-the-box — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mxracer, as much as I feel your frustration I disagree with your tactic. Opting out may help your student but will do nothing but increase those sadly long bars in the above charts.

Rather, follow the example of DeepDiver whose intervention helps not only their own child but the entire class X the number of classes that teacher had X the number of years the replacement teacher will stay in her school.

By: karen

karen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a little OT, but yesterday, I attended my grandson's preschool graduation. He went to the only preschool in town, which is run by a Baptist church. His father,uncle and aunt-all my kids- also attended there when they were preschoolers. I was amazed at how much more religious the program had become. The kids put on a show for us, which opened with them saying the Pledge of Allegiance. They did an excellent job; had it memorized to a tee. Then, they kept their hands on their hearts and pledged allegiance to the Christian flag. Then, again, one more time, a pledge to the Bible! After that, they entertained us with a mix of Christian and everyday preschool songs.

During the refreshments after, some of the kids had autograph puppies they were carrying around, getting their classmates to sign, I watched as my grandson signed tow of these. He was supposed to be prepared to go to kindergarten, but he made some of his letters backwards, and he wrote sideways to print. I noted that other kids had made their letters wrong in their names also. I looked at the artwork on the wall and saw the same kind of letter malformations, and some of the artwork looked like it was from kids just beginning preschool rather than graduating. But they could by-gawd memorize pledges to objects they had no way of understanding! It made me furious.

At the same time, my granddaughter, a year younger, who attends a daycare in another town (different moms, custody battle over the grandson, etc.)did her intake interview for all-day preschool and her parents were told she may not qualify because she may be too smart. In other words, she may be overqualified-there's nothing they could teach her and she'd have to just wait for kindergarten, because she's already ready for it, except age-wise.

My son took full custody as of the evening of my grandson's graduation, so hopefully he can work with him to make up for some lost time before his son actually goes to school. And maybe my grandson will actually be able to write his name correctly-something more useful than being able to sing "I love Jesus better than ice cream."