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December 2, 2008 - 3:12 am - by Richard Fernandez
Ruby
2008-12-02 09:23:13

Trangbang: It is a sign of your own ignorance the assumption that Christian schools don’t teach geology, history and biology. If anything they teach a much more diverse history than public schools as well as turn out better performers than most public schools.

That is remarkable, considering that many homeschoolers use textbooks like Biology for Christian Schools, which declares on its first page, “If [scientific] conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many scientific facts may appear to back them,” and “Christians must disregard [scientific hypotheses or theories] that contradict the Bible.”

But like I said, I don’t care what they teach their kids. They’ll learn what they need in the School of Hard Knocks soon enough.

I myself was edumacated in Catholic schools, that isn’t what we’re talking about here. The topic is Muslim schools that self-segregate from society. I don’t like double standards. There oughtn’t be one rule for Madrasses and another one for fundamentalist Christian home schools. If home schooling is extolled as a response to Statism, then why turn around and exercise that same Statism by getting the state to close Muslim schools?