Tax-payer funded charter schools using literature from hate groups to teach children

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151046/the_creepy_christian_dogma_pushed_by_religious_schools_that_are_supported_by_your_tax_dollars/

Are your state’s tax dollars funding the teaching of religious supremacism and bigotry? What about creationism? The answer is undoubtedly yes, if you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding “school choice."

In 12 states and the District of Columbia, almost 200,000 students attend private schools with at least part of their tuition paid with public funds. The money is taken from public school budgets to fund vouchers or by diverting state tax revenues to tuition grants through corporate tax credit programs. An interconnected group of non-profits and political action committees, led by the wealthy right-wing school privatization advocate Betsy DeVos and heavily funded by a few mega-donors, is working to expand these programs across the nation. The DeVos-led American Federation for Children hosted Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and Michelle Rhee at a national policy summit earlier in May.

Unsurprisingly, the textbooks are fiercely anti-abortion and virulently anti-gay, similar to the ideology of Religious Right organizations (heavily funded by Betsy DeVos and family) that have been labeled hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A Bob Jones current events text argues against legal protection for gays, stating, “These people have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.” The text uses an often-repeated phrase that homosexuals and abortion-rights supporters are “simply calling evil good.”

The textbooks exhibit hostility toward other religions, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, and traditional African and Native American religions, and other Christians are also targeted, including non-evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Really? Really? We're supposed to pay taxes to make it possible for Bob Jones to spread his hate to children? WHAT THE FUCK is the matter with our politicians - are you all so fucking corrupt and so willing to pander for votes from the SCUM of the earth that you are willing to destroy children in order to do so?

This is repulsive.

Charters were first set up to help children that were having trouble in main-stream public education
Then the vultures saw a way to capture all that money for their pockets and that is what we have today

for money.

This is really, really seriously sick.

The talibornagains are hoping most Americans will just go along to get along - esp. most Christians.

So, those who claim they're Christians - if you don't stand up to this shit - what good is your belief?

Not charter schools, which are public schools. But whatever.

when the vouchers may be given to organizations that teach hate for women, minorities, homosexuals and other religions as part of their curriculum.

the difference between the two is lost on me when the govt is treating them as the same thing.

Charter schools charge no tuition - they are public schools. Vouchers are used at private schools to pay tuition costs. Please don't equate private schools and charter schools. They are not the same at all.

but it looks like it's too late.

my issue is with tax-payer money going to religious organizations that teach creationism and hate.

we cannot afford another generation of students who are dumbed down by the religious right - I don't care how much they vote. Some things are not up for debate - such as creationism.

these schools surely cannot be accredited by any reputable organization. I will not assist in indoctrination of children into hate.

in South Florida. She teaches English and reading comprehension. Hopefully, she will not be forced to include any of those issues in her lessons, because, like me, she is an atheist.

as well as other religions.

this is the same bullshit that the religious right wing south spread in the 1960s - only now they have enough politicians who are willing to indicate that they, too, are scum of the earth and not worthy of their positions.

As the nation saw their hate-filled reaction to the demand for civil rights among African-Americans - they had to step back. But now we have politicians who are making it okay to spread these lies with impunity.

It reminds me of a link I posted to the religious lunatic on trading spouses - her friends attacked a woman who was, as they noted in air quotes, "spiritual."

One of these fine xtian women then said... so, we're all equal, like the rapists, terrorists and blacks? (the show cut off after bla...)

Which is the same language used to talk about homosexuals in these textbooks.

http://www.freethoughtflorida.com

--imm