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And that's not the only whopper students are being taught as history in some Texas charter schoolsBY JONNY SCARAMANGA
When Joshua Bass, an engineer, sent his son to iSchool High, a Houston charter school, he was expecting a solid college preparation, including the chance to study some college courses before leaving high school. Instead, the Basses were shocked when their son came home from the taxpayer-funded school with apparently religiously motivated anti-science books.
One of these books blamed Darwins theory of evolution for the Holocaust:
(Hitler) has written that the Aryan (German) race would be the leader in all human progress. To accomplish that goal, all lower races should either be enslaved or eliminated. Apparently the theory of evolution and its survival of the fittest philosophy had taken root in Hitlers warped mind.
For Joshua, attacks on science in the classroom were unacceptable. Joshua began to research ResponsiveEd, the curriculum used at iSchool High. It emerged that ResponsiveEd was founded by Donald R. Howard, former owner of ACE (Accelerated Christian Education). ACE is a fundamentalist curriculum that teaches young-Earth creationism as fact. Last year it hit headlines because one of its high school science books taught that the Loch Ness Monster was real, and that this was evidence against evolution.
more:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/christian_textbooks_darwin_inspired_hitler/
Tikki
(14,557 posts)Charles Darwin.
Both hitler and manson were/are insane.
Tikki
ps hitler and manson read the bible, also.
Mass
(27,315 posts)is that his theories are important to know.
That does not make Darwin responsible, but Darwinism has inspired many bad theories, social darwinism being one of them and certainly Nazis used it as a justification to their sick policy.
Frankly, I had to read Darwin's The Origins of Species recently and I was shocked to see to what point he was a racist and despised poor people.
This said, this does not justify not learning one of the most important theories in the world and one who has changed so many things.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)He "thought" his kid would get college prep courses, but he never actually verified that.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)I bet ACE leaves that out of their history books.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,004 posts)It's not my point to malign the whole state. I know many good decent people from there however the state seems to have more than its fair share of nutcases.