Korte samenvatting: goed georganiseerde christenfundamentalisten zijn in de VS al jaren bezig om religie in openbare scholen naar binnen te smokkelen. Uit onderzoek blijkt bijvoorbeeld dat alleen al in Texas op 57(!) openbare scholen bijbelonderricht wordt gegeven. Dit wordt o.a. mogelijk gemaakt door het feit dat überreligieuzen plaatsnemen in het schoolbestuur, waardoor ze invloed kunnen uitoefenen op het curriculum. Dit is bijvoorbeeld wat in de beroemde zaak Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District gebeurde.How the religious right is undermining education
One can trace the development of today’s right wing Christian think takes to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Religiously conservative people, motivated by their perceived degradation of society, quietly perfected their skills, all the while grooming their own young adherents, played an effective long-game that continues to win (and corrupt) the hearts and minds of a significant segment of our youth. Indeed, there is no better way to affect the future than by propagandizing the young. In this current post election season, the Biblically driven, often racist, members of society are once again regrouping to fight another day.
With the money of wealth funders like Richard and Betsy DeVos (sister of Blackwater scion Eric Prince and daughter of Elsa and Edgar Prince of the Amway fortune) and the Walton, Koch and Scaife Foundations, simpatico politicians are hard at work bringing Dominionist ideals quietly into the forefront of American education policy. While much of the country argues about budgets, deficits, and guns, a cleverly camouflaged package of School Choice and ”Bible-driven curricula“ make their way up the ladder.
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Only in America? Of denken jullie dat dit ook in Nederland kan gebeuren? Gezien de oprukkende secularisatie kan ik me dat nauwelijks voorstellen.