High quality education and Christian education are not possible to have at the same time.
You mean teaching that the earth is 6000 years old is not “high quality education”? Heresy!
Surprisingly untrue. Catholic schools in my experience often have excellent curriculums.
Except when it comes to anything to do with science or philosophy or psychology or history or biology
But who needs that when instead you can read a magic book.
They do those things well too. You’re probably thinking of Bible belt religious schools.
There are a few Catholic schools close to my house; far superior than the public schools of even the suburbs around here. (However, our city public schools are a joke.)
The idea that they don’t teach evolution, etc. is an extremist view that probably mixes the reality of a specific US region with the crap they heard off the media.
On a related note, Dave Barry wrote in his definitive work on Japan (this is paraphrased):
The problem with being an American person in Japan is that everything is nondescript and written in Japanese. So you’re never quite sure if the door you are about to enter is marked “restaurant,” or “enter here for express vasectomy service.”
I lived in Japan as an American for 6 years. There were definitely times I went to enter a place and had the employees politely chuckle while handwaving/headshaking “no”. Sometimes I figured out what my error was, but there are many where I’m not sure why I was ushered out the door.
When I was in Tokyo I went to a restaurant and all the other customers were women and I felt everyone peek glances at me the entire time I was there. They served me food but to this day I am not sure what I walked into.
Maybe they had the place rented out?
My parent sent me to a southern Baptist Christian private school. Complete with the Abeka book system, and everything. I even took bible for a credit one year. Since I already have that “high quality Christian education”. Can I please just have some hot and delicious food.
Also, as a side note. We were known as “The rebels” our mascot was a confederate soldier. Our gym with the basketball court had confederate flags painted on the walls 2 stories high.
Ah yes. The Abeca curriculum. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Literally designed to create white Christian nationalists that love guns, supply side white Jesus, Ummarica, and hate intellectuals, science, and evidence-based history. EDIT: I forgot it’s also designed to enforce evangelical Christian gender roles and teach that anything except straight cis people aren’t real humans.
Ahhh I see you know your Christian nationalism well. Believe it or not. Abeka was one of their selling points. When your young and live in a city that is majority African American people. You go to school and think it’s weird that in a school that’s K-12 there only 2 black people.
It wasn’t until I got out of school and started making my own friends that I realized just how heinous that experience had been. You start to realize that all of the people you have been around are horrible bigots (family included). From there of course the natural evolution is to make your own family. Which is where I am now.
The “good” thing is that the cognitive dissonance is so massive after getting exposed to the real world that Abeca seems to have precisely the opposite effect, causing many to completely and utterly discard religion altogether.
I would agree with that. I am obviously not a huge fan. Though a lot of that happened because I had a pretty heinous childhood. I was like 8 when I decided there was no god. I took bible in middle school because it was supposed to be an easy A, but I failed. At the time I was really bummed, but I now wear that as a badge of honor.
But yeah, the few people I’ve kept in contact with are at the very least not practicing. Most are nonbelievers including a Muslim chick that went there.
Here’s a fond memory of her. So we went to school there and became friends. She moved to the other side of town, but we kept in touch and even hung out once we got cars. One night I’m at a local dive bar that has rock and metal bands all the time and I see her. We chat it up then go our separate ways.
Later that night I’d had a lot to drink and I’m in line for the guys bathroom. In each bathroom there is one toilet and one sink right in front of the toilet. So I’m in line and she walks by headed into the women’s bathroom. I stop her and beg her to let me go in the bathroom with her. I’m tell her that I’ll use the sink. Im not going to look please. She laughed and said I don’t care if you look you can come in and use the sink.
So, I’m peeing in the sink. She’s peeing in the toilet staring at my back. All of a sudden she breaks the silence and says “you know, when we were in school, you and I used to compete in the spelling bee. Now look at us.” We both burst out laughing.
There was also an incident where she got us free weed from a car full of women with full burkas on. That was crazy. She made me hide under a bunch of blankets in her back seat. That way they couldn’t see me when they pulled up. That was before she moved out of her parents house.
Anyway, yeah there are quite a few well adjusted people that came from there. Despite going through all that indoctrination.
I find both to be highly suspect and I’m going to turn around and walk away.
Gluttony is a sin right?.. Left it is, then.
I wonder what kind of food they have. I mean, I’m going that way regardless, but I still wonder.
I’ll take the obvious subway sign for 800.
Which way, Western man?
The hardest choices require the strongest wills
Gimme hot, fresh, high-quality, delicious christian food education.
all im saying is im hungry
