• Today@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ohhhh… Yeah, if that had been a Baptist school they would have won. I’m sure someone said, “if the Catholics get a school then the muslims and satanists will want one too.” Right call, wrong reason.

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      5 months ago

      The AG responsible for this said almost literally that, in the article.

      Now Oklahomans can be assured that our tax dollars will not fund the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism.

      I’ll still take it, though.

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      5 months ago

      You’re thinking of the Deep South. Baptists aren’t a big thing in OK, in fact I always thought they were viewed as slightly weird.

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        5 months ago

        Growing up there most families i knew were Baptist or Church of Christ, with a few methodists thrown in. Used to joke that Oklahoma would stay dry as long as Baptists could stumble to the polls.

        ETA- All of my friends went to Falls Creek camp. They invited me but i was never allowed to go because one friend told a story about hammering nails into a cross and crying. That’s where most people i knew had their first ‘romantic experiences’ - first kiss, etc.

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    5 months ago

    Good. Keep religious indoctrination out of the school room. 👍🏻

    It’s a shame about all the other indoctrination that is still there. But at least let the kids grow up before religion comes knocking at the door. (Literally knocking in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses…lol)

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    5 months ago

    Why are charter schools called public in the US? Just because they are funded with public money? We call them private in Sweden as they are directed by a private entity and the profits are also private.

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      5 months ago

      Some people call them public because they are funded by the government, not by tuition or private donors. The claim is that a private company freed from government restrictions can do a better job more efficiently.

      That’s a huge load of bullcrap: diverting public school funds from the school system toward private profit

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      5 months ago

      Public funds should not pay for private for-profit education where the government has little to no oversight over curriculum (which I’m sure is not the case in Sweden). That’s what happens in the US. We’re broken.

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        5 months ago

        There is quite some regulation on the curriculum, but the school system in sweden is completely ruined. The charter schools are allowed unlimited profits, they give away high grades for free just to get a greater score, they turn away kids they think will be too expensive. It’s a free fall dumpster fire.