Re: American curriculum (fue: Language family trees)

On 2003.02.03 09:51 Christopher Wright wrote:
> Robert Wilson cuendalve:
> >they complain about evolution being taught as if it
> >has been scientifically proven when it is really nothing more than a
> >guess with very little scientific evidence to support it.
>
> And Christianity, as a strong influence on the whole world and the US
> in
> particular, should have at least as much time in American schools as
> any
> other religion, perhaps more. But I have no desire to start a flamewar
> here; I'll make another list on Yahoo for this purpose *if need be*.
> Email me privately if you'd like me to do so.
Some subsections of Islam have had quite a strong influence on the
whole world and US foreign policy as well, I would say. I hardly
would've thought the Christian influence currently exerted would've
amounted to much, except in the odd fossilised holiday like Christmas
or Easter, which're hardly Christian holidays any more (we don't have
Thanksgiving here in Oz, but to me it seems that the difference between
Christmas and Thanksgiving is that gifts are given at the former...).

And how much time in American state schools is given to non-Christian
religions? I only went to a state school for the last four years of
high school (we don't distinguish b/n junior and senior high like you
guys), but religion (XP or otherwise) was covered on all of maybe no
occasions (meantioned when relevent, yes, taught, no).

Tristan.

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