So, the “atheiosphere” (atheist blogosphere) has discovered the story about a Home-Schooled Football League in Georgia - and the accompanying photo.
Yep.
Of course, as a homeschooling “Priority List,” it looks fairly standard: God has taken his rightful place as Numero Uno; not that Acedemics [sic] and Atheletics [sic] didn’t also make the list [rolling eyes].
But, atheist critics of homeschooling are enjoying the photo. If homeschooling is a practice employed by mostly-uneducated Christian fundamentalists whose end goal is to indoctrinate their children with religious propaganda, the picture is a find. Who knew so much could be accomplished in a simple 4 item list?
A few comments from the post at Pharyngula on this topic:
- Why strive for “acedemic” excellence when there are job openings at the Creation Museum?
- Morans.
- I’m just sorry that “Speling” didn’t make the list of priorities.
- If they cannot master spelling, or even consider proof reading, what chance do they have at teaching any science and mathematics?
- Actually, it makes sense if spelled phonetically with a southern accent. Then again, maybe it’s just spelling in tongues.
Eeesh.
Wonder why they’re picking on the “homeschool” angle instead of the dumb jock angle . . .
. . .or the in-bred stupid Southerner angle, hey there’s one I never heard before, hee-haw!
Hey, they spelled God right. What more do you need? If God is on the side of your football team, you win! Of course, God was busy at the BET awards last night. Not sure he could make it to GA in time. . . Busy guy.
Nance — not one of “those” homeschoolers
Now reading the whole damn thing. . . going down for the third time, must– get — coffee. . . . I’ve reached mile marker #206, where someone finally does see my dumb jock stereotype and raise the bet as I too like to do, reminding the dumb ps parents that most dumb hs parents were themselves publicly schooled.
Also I see Dr. Cobranchi (southern and homeschooling dad) commented once on June 26. Okay, on with the slog.
Actually that was #208.
LMAO! But here in #225 is the crux of the mad scientist madness, everywhere this Logic of Failure repeats–
“As to homeschooling, I definitely think there should be more standards (and a way to track them), especially with reading, writing, and science. If they don’t measure up to basic standards, into the public schools they go.”
(If bleeding em with leeches doesn’t work. . .)
Ouch. Though, I must admit, that is a pretty priceless find [smile].
~Luke
Are we sure that picture of the sign wasn’t photoshopped? It seems a little too convenient…
Chris, what are the tech geek clues to check that out?
Graphics work is not my strong point. I took a look at the image blown way up – and I don’t see anything that screams photoshop job.
COD:
It was a photo from the NYTimes article. If you click the link “more photos” you’ll find a better photo (my copy is reduced for easy loading).
The caption:
The NYTimes article didn’t seem to comment on the misspellings, so we’re left wondering who made the sign, it seems. All I know: As a homeschooling parent I would have taken the initiative to replace the sign — unless I didn’t notice the problems, of course. And, as somewhere in that same thread of comments asked, “How many hands did that sign pass through before it was installed?”
Hi JJ,
Maybe the “dumb jock angle” wasn’t played because “Atheletics” is dead last on the list :)
Nance:
[laughing] – yes, Daughter recorded it and we watched a smidge of it this morning. Unbelievable. I made her turn it off before it did permanent damage to her brain.
Yeah, I know :D
Nance:
Actually, did you see that someone commented, “they even spelled Dog wrong”? :)
I couldn’t bring myself to actually read the comments. :)
But I did read the comments on the next post you had. The blog about atheists by Greta. Which led to several interesting blogs.
So, thanks! :)
Nance
Good choice :) It’s the path less traveled – but a more interesting one, imho.