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Friday, October 25, 2013

Textbooks at Houston charter schools use existence of Loch Ness Monster to disprove evolutionary theory | The Raw Story

Textbooks at Houston charter schools use existence of Loch Ness Monster to disprove evolutionary theory | The Raw Story:

Textbooks at Houston charter schools use existence of Loch Ness Monster to disprove evolutionary theory



 A charter school in Houston that accepts taxpayer funding is using anti-science textbooks in its classrooms. According to a parent of one of its former students, iSchool High is using textbooks that explicitly link evolutionary theory with genocide:
[Hitler] has written that the Aryan (German) race would be the leader in all human progress. To accomplish that goal, all “lower races” should either be enslaved or eliminated. Apparently the theory of evolution and its “survival of the fittest” philosophy had taken root in Hitler’s warped mind.
iSchool, which according to Alan Wimberley, a “chief learning officer” with its parent company Responsive Education Solutions, or ResponsiveEd, is designed “to get kids college — and career-ready.”
However, ResponsiveEd was founded by Donald R. Howard, former owner of Accelerated