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Louisiana school voucher program allows kids to learn creationist non-science and pro-slavery revisionism | Pam's House Blend

Louisiana school voucher program allows kids to learn creationist non-science and pro-slavery revisionism | Pam's House Blend:


Louisiana School Voucher Program Allows Kids to Learn Creationist Non-Science and Pro-Slavery Revisionism

The Education Governor (photo: Gage Skidmore / flickr)
You can thank Republican Veep prospect, Governor Bobby “the exorcist” Jindal for this development. Millions of tax dollars under his voucher program will go to “save” the low-wealth and middle class kids from Louisiana’s horrible public schools to private schools run by fundies teaching from textbooks rife with bible-based bullsh*ttery. (Mother Jones):
While the governor’s plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state’s PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven’t been solved by the new standardsthe Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.
For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college