2,000 US schools use textbooks from Abeka, BJU Press and Accelerated
Christian Education (ACE), including tax-funded charter schools across
America; students who learn from these texts are taught that God wanted
Protestantism to flourish in North America and that Catholocism is not a
true faith; that it was better Africans to be enslaved and come to
“know Christ” than to be free but not Christian; that evolution is
untrue; that humans and dinosaurs lived together (and that Noah brought
baby dinosaurs on the ark); that the Loch Ness monster is real; that
“abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act” are part of a
“radical social agenda”; that nonwhites are inferior (60% of the
tax-funded scholarship students at charter schools come from racialized
minorities and are thus taught that they are racially inferior to their
white schoolmates).
The materials are meant to be administered by people without teaching
credentials – many charter schools do not require these – with all
instruction delivered through easy worksheets that ensure that even
qualified teachers can’t improve the educational experience. In Florida,
atudents who attend charter schools on scholarships are not required to
take standardized exams that might uncover gaps in their education.
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