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Here's a little background on how "humans descended from apes" theory being taught in schools
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/monkey-trial-begins
Personally I think any laws that outlaw teaching any theory, bound to doom. The best thing to do is to teach kids both theories in good faith and provide all contextual information like Darwin's background and opposition from other scientists and let the kids decide what they believe in.
That seems like a slippery slope, fren. Do we then teach kids they can be boys instead of girls, or cats, or whatever, and let them decide? You see what I'm saying?
My kids are adults, but I would definitely be homeschooling if they were not.
Kids should be taught the maths, basic science, like the difference between plant cells and animal cells, how they function, the elemental chart, simple atomic structure, geography, basic solar system stuff, the planets, the moon phases, bacteria stuff, geology, you know, earth science, what causes a volcano, soil structure, basic anatomy leaving off puberty stuff till middle school, completely referring to any gender discussions out of it, learn about digestion and heart rates, health class should talk about dangers of sugar, lack of excercise, basically things that should not be debated. American history should be at least a years worth of curriculum, with extra credit and book reports on keynotes of our history. Teach how a town gets established, how roads are built, teach literature and use reading as a way to learn vocabulary, how to use new words in sentences, definitions, have crafts again, arts and crafts, shop class. There was a time when NYC public schools gave you an education that today would qualify a person for an associates degree at the time of high school graduation. Curriculums changed, new math, something called whole reading or something, whole language reading, that did nothing but teach to the test and made it all dumbed down for critical thinking. Gender studies? phhht, maybe for a Masters Degree in something, not essential to our childrens minds. Teach about other cultures, sure, but not in some political frame, or with an agenda, just teach it, it used to be called social studies, about how other people lived in different cultures. When children have questions about things outside of the classroom , refer them to their parents, childrens opinions are not relevant outside of the subject being taught, so, avoid opinions until they are at the age of critical thinking. I just remember my early school years and how rich they were with the accent on reading, composition, vocabulary, book reports, and simple science facts about all sorts of everyday things. Now, the brighter kids get bored, the kids who need help get ignored or shoved into a category, and college grads do not know basic geography, the difference between the great plains or the west coast.
The older I get, The more I see that the Amish had it right all along.
We need to teach kids the scientific bases for how people claim boys can be girls, absolutely. Like this video does.
We also need to include everything about the detrans community, including stats about suicide rates, percentage of people who regret their choices, chronic complications, etc.
Light is the only antidote to darkness.
Great link. FYI, I was at a conference about 4 or 5 years back, and Quentin Van Meter was a guest, and presented this content.
Totally mind blowing, but really informs about the methodologies being used not only in this field, but others.