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Wait, this is legit? That quiz looks like a parody someone would make to make fun of creationists.

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We all know why they "teach" in this manner and that is the less you know about the world around you the easier it is to believe in God. Then if the children do learn other stuff they can default to this is what I learned to be true from people who love and trust me, why would I trust this other stuff. Does anyone know if they have done a rates of education in relation to rates of high religiousity in the states. I live in a very blue state with education being of high value and the rate of agnostics/athestics is fairly high.

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Wait, this is legit? That quiz looks like a parody someone would make to make fun of creationists.

That's totally what I thought. Still waiting for the post saying it's a joke!

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.brca.us/ This appears to be the school and

Based on info from their website, they appear to get their science curriculum from this place .csionline.org/home

From the Blue Ridge website , regarding their Senior class (which from the pic has 8 students)

The class of 2013 has been accepted to a wide a range of colleges including: Anderson University, Baylor University, Charleston Southern University, Gardner Web University, North Greenville University, Spartanburg Methodist College, and University of South Carolina - Columbia. Graduation will be held on Friday, May 31st in the Gymnasium.

I thought Baylor was supposed to be a good school... Am I to believe that on the SATs that student didn't use "God did it" as the answer to all science questions?

Every one of those schools except for Spartanburg Methodist and USC are Southern Baptist schools. Anderson and North Greenville used to be junior colleges and quite frankly, really smart kids did not go there. If they wanted to go a to Baptist institution of higher education, they'd go to Furman or Wake Forest. Maybe even Mercer. Kelly and Gil Bates went to Anderson when it was a junior college.

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My state (like Louisiana, is, apparently, and others want to) is talking about using tax dollars to fund whatever private school parents what to send their kids to (education dollars follow the kid) and this is exactly the kind of stuff I DON'T want my tax dollars supporting.

How's that going to work out the first time a madrassa applies to use those vouchers, I wonder?

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Coming out of lurkdom because I can really relate to this. I went to a very good public school system up until my junior year of high school, when I was pulled out by my parents and placed in a private Christian school. My family and I were not religious, but they just wanted to get me somewhere where I was away from the "bad influence" of the public school crowd.

Anyway, I remember having a conversation along these lines with my Bible teacher in front of the rest of the class. We were discussing the dinosaur explanation, and being new to the Bible teachings, I raised my hand and asked, "Are you saying there were dinosaurs on the ark? Like an actual Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus stomping around with Noah and all his fuzzy creatures?" And I kid you not, she adamantly replied yes. I was expecting a more logical explanation, such as the dinosaurs weren't included on the ark, and that's why they're extinct, but no.

When I attended public school, I had hours of difficult homework each night. At the private school, my backpack never left my car when I got home, because I had no reason to open it. As long as I memorized my Bible verses and had at least part of my math homework done, that was acceptable.

Also, even though my parents sent me to that school to get me away from bad influences, I have to say I met many more drug users and promiscuous people there than in the public school - probably because their parents sent them to that school to "save" them also. Those same people were the ones worshipping during chapel, judging me for not being one of them, and trying to convert me. That kind of hypocrisy turned me away from organized religion for good.

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My kids tell me a lot of kids from our high school go to North Greenville because they offer really good scholarships. It's also known among local kids as a drug/alcohol/ party school (all underground I'm guessing). Go figure.

My exfi's sister goes to Anderson University for the same reason - free ride. She only has to pay for books & supplies. And attend mandatory chapel every Sunday morning. She & her mother are smug "hipster" fundies, so she's fine with that.

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Baylor also has very large scholarships - Baylor offered me a very large scholarship and I have to complete a full application, no essays or application fee. I know people who went there from my HS, a mix of people with full rides and those who fit the Southern Baptist mold.

I'm guessing that the fundies group together once they're there. I also wouldn't be surprised if specific science courses are known within those circles to be more "safe" from a creationist standpoint (Botany? IDK).

As an aside, The SAT doesn't have a science section, so the fundies are safe from that. ACT does have a science section. If I remember correctly, though, it was a bit more logicy - I am not particularly good at the hard sciences and did quite well on the ACT science section.

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Why does the upstate seem to have all the nutjobs? Haven't we suffered enough? We have Bob Jones U (and I am still amused at the BJ they use for their signs and bumper stickers) and the whack jobs who walk around carrying PVC pipe crosses and signs. Now this?

I worked with a woman who sent her child to BRCA. wow, just wow. Once they go on to G'ville Tech, or Tricounty Tech or Spartanburgh Community College, bio 101 is going to be a real shock.

We moved here from NC about a year ago due to jobs and I can't stand it. Things like this just reaffirm how crazy this place is. UGH. Some days its all I can do to not pack up and leave right now.

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My kids tell me a lot of kids from our high school go to North Greenville because they offer really good scholarships. It's also known among local kids as a drug/alcohol/ party school (all underground I'm guessing). Go figure.

My exfi's sister goes to Anderson University for the same reason - free ride. She only has to pay for books & supplies. And attend mandatory chapel every Sunday morning. She & her mother are smug "hipster" fundies, so she's fine with that.

Doesn't surprise me that N. Greenville is a "party" school". I used to work at the gas station across from BJU (when it was a BP) and I can't tell you how many students would come over and buy beer and cigarettes and rolling papers. At least 1 in 3 beer sales were BJU students. They aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, they would show me their student ID cards when I carded them.

I think most kids are going to N. Greenville or BJU either because of a scholarship or because mom and dad said so. And they are raising as much hell as posible without getting arrested.

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How's that going to work out the first time a madrassa applies to use those vouchers, I wonder?

Kinda like this, I think

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/0 ... 55249.html

Hodges initially supported the governor's program because she mistakenly equated "religious" with "Christian," according to the report. Jindal's reform package allows state education funds to be used to send students to religious schools.

“Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion... We need to insure [sic] that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana," Hodges was quoted as saying in the Livingston Parish News.

Meanwhile, in Tennessee .

. . several anti-religion lawmakers in the state senate, led by Sen. Bill Ketron who sponsored several anti-Islam bills in the last few years, are hoping to strip away the ability for any school that caters to Muslim children and their families to receive public dollars:

Ketron is quite something.

Ketron has cultivated a reputation as the state’s chief Islamophobe, proposing a bill in 2011 that could have introduced punishments of up to 15 years in jail for any Muslim who observed the holy month of Ramadan or prayed five times a day towards Mecca, a religious requirement for observant Muslims.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013 ... ?mobile=nc

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Q: The next time someone says the earth is billions (or millions) of years old, what can you say?

A: were you there [Personally, I would've gone with "pics or it didn't happen."]

I keep wanting to say, "I wasn't there when my parents had sex, but there's pretty incontrovertible evidence that it happened."

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We moved here from NC about a year ago due to jobs and I can't stand it. Things like this just reaffirm how crazy this place is. UGH. Some days its all I can do to not pack up and leave right now.

I've lived here all my life & I want to leave so bad I can't stand it. Won't happen, at least for a long time. I'd be happy just moving up to Asheville.

My IFB sister has been busily indoctrinating her 10-yo granddaughter almost since she was born. The kid is super smart, but sis insists that she'll be going to BJU. North Greenville is not acceptable because it's evil worldly Southern Baptist. (She'll accept Converse, though, but only because it's her alma mater. She went as an adult. I doubt she'd "allow" it if she had the total college experience.) She refuse to listen when I try to tell her anything negative about BJU or North Greenville.

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Doesn't surprise me that N. Greenville is a "party" school". I used to work at the gas station across from BJU (when it was a BP) and I can't tell you how many students would come over and buy beer and cigarettes and rolling papers. At least 1 in 3 beer sales were BJU students. They aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, they would show me their student ID cards when I carded them.

I think most kids are going to N. Greenville or BJU either because of a scholarship or because mom and dad said so. And they are raising as much hell as posible without getting arrested.

I've wondered how many BJ kids buy porn at the newsstand next to the gas station.

ETA: I knew a young couple that had gone to BJ about 15 years ago. They had to drop out when she got pregnant.

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I keep wanting to say, "I wasn't there when my parents had sex, but there's pretty incontrovertible evidence that it happened."

QFT

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