Jill Porter - Dear God! Philly students trading religion for math [View All]

Jill Porter - Dear God! Philly students trading religion for math

SCORES OF Philadelphia public school students are missing out on math and other academic classes to read the Bible and discuss salvation through Jesus Christ.

They're leaving school for an hour per week to do so.

And if the subject of evolution comes up, they're likely to be told that they are God's creations and Darwin's theory isn't true.

It's shocking that public school time would be used in such religious pursuit - and downright scandalous that evolution would be debunked in favor of creationism, which isn't permitted in the district's curriculum.

And it's all perfectly, unfathomably, legal.
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http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/13346428.htm


Nice huh? PS students skipping math to learn creationism.

Kansas PS teaching students that supernatural explanations for scientific phenomena are perfectly acceptable 'scientific' explanations.

Science curriculum standards for 15 States are sub-standard.

20% of Americans believe the sun orbits the earth, another 17% think the earth orbits the sun in one day.

Over 50% of blacks and hispanics drop out of school in "many" cities.

Over 70% of young African-American high school dropouts are currently not employed ... and the pervasive joblessness of minority males contributes fundamentally to various problems of inner cities--poverty, crime, welfare dependency, high proportion of female-headed families, and drug abuse;...

But according to one teacher: "Sorry but we aren't failing. "

Who's kidding who?