Wife and I don’t have any family nearby really so we get zero help with our youngest. We make okay money but my god any help at all would be a SUPER NICE use of my tax money over bombing brown children.
The GOP is a death cult.
In similar news, my oldest, who’s in honors classes, didn’t know what the Scopes Monkey Trial was. I hate the fucking Bible Belt.
I’ve never heard of it before now, so here’s a summary for anyone else with a major gap in their education:
The Scopes trial was a famous legal case in Tennessee where a teacher was accused of violating a law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Evolution was never specifically covered in my education. I remember at least one class skipping it on purpose because evolution was controversial and the instructor was not going to get consent forms for every student.
Wild.
I learned evolution. It was a whole segment in science class around the 8th grade. Blue state education… can’t believe we used to make fun of it.
I feel you. We ended up having to move for more help with the kids. Socialized childcare of some kind would have kept me working and contributing to wider society. Instead I had to move back to the village. It seems like taxes being used to support people would help “line go up.”
At first it seemed wild to me that you weren’t taught it, but now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t know where I learned about it from. I might have learned it in a high school class, but I came out as an atheist at that time and did a lot of research on my own, so I’m not sure.
It doesn’t seem like something that should be esoteric, but something that should be taught alongside other educational and civil rights battles and milestones.
i’m 35, took AP us history in high school in california, and i’m pretty sure i’d never heard of the scopes trial before just now. It seems like a somewhat esoteric thing to teach about to me? idk why he would be expected to know about it.
“It takes a village”
Social programs exist
“…no not like that.”
Wife and I don’t have any family nearby really so we get zero help with our youngest. We make okay money but my god any help at all would be a SUPER NICE use of my tax money over bombing brown children.
The GOP is a death cult.
In similar news, my oldest, who’s in honors classes, didn’t know what the Scopes Monkey Trial was. I hate the fucking Bible Belt.
I’ve never heard of it before now, so here’s a summary for anyone else with a major gap in their education:
Evolution was never specifically covered in my education. I remember at least one class skipping it on purpose because evolution was controversial and the instructor was not going to get consent forms for every student.
Wild. I learned evolution. It was a whole segment in science class around the 8th grade. Blue state education… can’t believe we used to make fun of it.
I feel you. We ended up having to move for more help with the kids. Socialized childcare of some kind would have kept me working and contributing to wider society. Instead I had to move back to the village. It seems like taxes being used to support people would help “line go up.”
At first it seemed wild to me that you weren’t taught it, but now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t know where I learned about it from. I might have learned it in a high school class, but I came out as an atheist at that time and did a lot of research on my own, so I’m not sure.
It doesn’t seem like something that should be esoteric, but something that should be taught alongside other educational and civil rights battles and milestones.
i’m 35, took AP us history in high school in california, and i’m pretty sure i’d never heard of the scopes trial before just now. It seems like a somewhat esoteric thing to teach about to me? idk why he would be expected to know about it.
It was a major event that had a lasting impact for the rest of the century
Inherit the Wind at least was on AP lit course lists, im a few years older than you and took most of those classes in Florida
It involved Clarence Darrow, one of the most noteworthy attorneys of the century
sigh this fuckin system…