Between this nonsense and the mindless waste of billions culminating this Sunday, no wonder the us gets its ass kicked. A lack of a truly educated public means only fast food jobs get created, and hence the middle class has stagnated for 30 years.

A large, publicly funded charter school system in Texas is teaching creationism to its students. Creationist teachers don’t even need to be sneaky about it—the Texas state science education standards, as well as recent laws in Louisiana and Tennessee, permit public school teachers to teach “alternatives” to evolution. Meanwhile, in Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, taxpayer money is funding creationist private schools through state tuition voucher or scholarship programs.

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