Probably the “paratrooper” designation that made me think that he had been in the Air Force.
And in the spirit of the OP, Charlie Daniels is a dipshit who wouldn’t know truth if it walked up and buggered his ass repeatedly.
Thanks a whole lot for that lovely image. Excuse me, I have to gouge out my eyes now.
Is there some problem with that? I mean, some problem other than your own?
No problem at all, if the earth really is flat, the universe really is geocentric, and evolution can be proven false, and the earth really is only 6000 years old. No problem at all, if you want them to become Bible thumping bigots just like their parents. No problem at all if you wish them to grow up just as ignorant and stupid as these parents apparently are.
What I wish is to decide what my children learn. I wish for you to mind your own business. Fuck with my kids, and you’d better be ready to kill me. That’s how a lot of parents think.
There is one silver lining there. These “students” won’t be any competition to me in my job (technical stuff). Maybe when they hit the job market and really start showing how little they know about anything whatsoever, my market value will go up. Hmmmmm. [evil cackle]
Now we agree! 
Do the best you can for you and yours, and leave others free to do as they please, so long as they initiate no force or deception against you. What should happen will happen.
Liberal*
Let’s have our children learn whatever their parents want.
Is there some problem with that? I mean, some problem other than your own?*
Yes, I sure have a problem with that. Some parents might want their kids to learn about astrology. Hey, all the major newspapers print horoscopes every day so there must be some truth to it right?
Maybe some parents want their children to do well in school and so they could insist that the math and science teachers grade all their children’s tests 100% no matter if the answers are right or wrong. After all, it is those Godless educational institutions that forcefeed our kids into adopting a “pro-correct-answer” mentality. Yeah I don’t want my kid to be some goose-stepping, gestapo, Hitler-Youth type who only wants to give answers that he was told are the truth. Maybe E doesn’t equal mc² because, after all, it is based on a theory not fact.
For most professions and jobs, holding a certain position on the origin of species neither enhances nor degrades your competence, providing that you don’t evangelize about the wrong opinion. If you want your market value to go up, you probably ought to worry about your own studies and not concern yourself about what others are studying.
I have a problem with that. I have to share a planet with them, and I have a basic problem with people forcing their ignorance on their children. I know that’s intrinsic to parenting in a sense, but people putting their children in different schools just so they don’t learn the “wrong” (which happens to be right) thing?
I’m not worried about it. I got my degree, I have a job. I was figuring, if they are going to be so grossly uneducated in one area of science, there is no reason to think they would know much about any other area either. They seem to revel in their own ignorance. Let them teach whatver drivel they want in their little private “schools” then. Just keep them from trying to force their stupidity on other schools (i.e. demands that ID and creationism be given equal time vs true science). I feel sorry for their spawn though.
Unfortunately, the rednecks in Middle TN. don’t feel the same way. He pulls alot of weight around here, and I’m not talking about his huge gut.
Actually, why do theories on the origin of life have any place in school at all? It is predictive of nothing, prepares you for neither trade nor skill, nor makes you a more productive member of society nor a better citizen. For most people, it’s just a shibboleth used by scientists and creationists alike to figure identify whether someone is “for us or against us.” Origin theory shouldn’t be taught below the university level at all, and if it absolutely must be, it should be an elective and not presented alongside empirical science.
I think you’re really living up to your user name ther 
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”
Many people feel that an understanding of science is important in life in a modern society such as ours. Biology is one of the sciences that can be taught to young children, because, among many reasons, most children are interested in other living things, children are living things, and many of the basic ideas can be described without relatively complex math. If we are going to teach biology, why should we purposely ignore the its own grand unifying theory?
And to be pedantic: evolution doesn’t concern itself with the origin of life, only with the process of biological change.
Charlie Daniels did use his money to give his son a better education than he had. However, judging from this recent blog entry, he wasn’t too happy with results and regrets doing it.
This guy is such a stereotype of a “Red State Republican” that I wonder if it isn’t part of some act to endure himself to his fan base.
It’s a nice example of how better understanding of a subject can be attained by examining the evidence available in the natural world. Given our recent history in which 60% of Americans were suckered into supporting an unjustified war on the basis of cooked up evidence and baseless assertions of certainty, it’s obviously more important than ever to teach critical reasoning skills; or we could just implement competency tests at the voting booth.
Charlie Daniels did use his money to give his son a better education than he had. However, judging from this recent blog entry, he wasn’t too happy with results and regrets doing it.
This guy is such a stereotype of a “Red State Republican” that I wonder if it isn’t part of some act he puts on to play to his fan base.
This post didn’t change a bit in two minutes. PROOF that evolution is a LIE!
Ok, you got me. I can teach them all they need to know in three seconds.
Good morning class. Repeat after me.
“You want fries with that?”
Congratulations, here’s your diploma.