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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
They're not your children. It isn't your decision. Now if it is the public school system and they are indoctrinating my children with an atheistic world view; than I should have something to say about it.
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I never had "Atheism" taught to me in class. School equipped me with the faculties to make my own decisions based on evidence and critical thinking.
Schools (public that is) still need to be religiously neutral. Science classes should teach 1st, the scientific method, 2nd discoveries in science, and 3rd how to evalute results of science, and 4th when to disregard or retool a theory because the evidence does not fit it. Science classes should focus on creative thinking to come up with new ideas as to why things occurs, but simultaneously focus equally on good skepticism that gives science its self-correcting mechanism; that is, when new evidence arises that contradicts a mainstream theory, a new theory may have to be formulated to explain the phenonen (see the transition from Newtonian gravitational theory to Einsteinian gravitional theory (relativity).
Mathematics should be taught in much the same way.
There also needs to be more emphasis on the arts IMO.