I’m from RSA, Went through the ACE system all that Jazz, as this report says, the tolerance thing isn’t acceptable! They are right, the Maths is really not that bad, I have a math fetish and I made the transition between ACE Maths and started doing Fractal Geometry, Applied Maths and Theoretical Maths without too much of an issue so it can’t be that bad right? The English, is great, excessive, but you know, if not why not? The Science, I had an issue with, but you know there was always outside learning and you discard ideas that don’t work when newer and more comprehensive theories become available.
I hope you don’t take too much offense to this, but I had a laugh at you moments ago and as the Catholic Priest in His Chamber with a Choir Boy once blurted out as a policeman held a flashlight in his eyes. I can explain!!!
Man I’ve been going through your blog and you seem like an intelligent person, you have discipline, strong opinions and you do your research! However…
[Speaking as a woolly liberal, this is woolly liberalism at its most preposterous. I am glad to see the ACE science curriculum criticised, of course, but this criticism amounts to, “Well, you can teach what you like, but you should be nicer about it.” That is ludicrous. ACE’s intolerance is a problem, of course, but so is teaching Creationism in the first place. Teaching Creationism would not be acceptable if ACE did it in a more tolerant way. They would still be guilty of misleading children. The teaching of charitable attitudes is a side issue in science (if not in education overall) in comparison with the teaching of proper science.]
That was pretty ignorant, now wasn’t it?
If a Muslim wants his child to be educated in a Muslim School, I have no issue with it, if a Christian Parent wants their Child brought up in a school that teaches Creation, I have no problem with that, I also have no issue with a Parent wanting their child to go to a school that teaches Evolution.
There is actually nothing wrong with believing in a different religion, theory, morals, I’m not a christian man, but I do respect the morals laid down in the bible. I respect any man who stands by his principles! (I have no respect for close minded people, in fact that’s the only time my live and let live philosophy goes out the window)
There are laws that allow for this
Teaching Creationism is actually ok, Teaching Evolution is also actually ok, the only thing that is not ok, is teaching intolerance. Do I think that ACE needs to update a lot of their curriculum on a more regular basis? Damn skippy I do. They also need re-evaluate the tolerance issue, do I think that the Curriculum as a whole is to be discarded? No, do I think that the people Administering and Implementing the System(principles, supervisors and school boards) need to be held accountable for the Extremist Jihad like behaviour? Yes!
You were pretty damn ignorant on that man, Although perhaps in fighting Fundamentalists, you have become one and the same with them (Anti-Fundamentalist-Fundamentalist) Take a step back, reevaluate. I know that you and I can agree that not all ACE schools are run poorly in fact many of them are run very well(albeit these schools are probably not IFB). It seems to me that many of the Horror stories stem from these Extremist Fundamentalists and as with any type of extremist view, Its a recipe for disaster.
I’m not Anti ACE as its made me who I am today, yet I probably wouldn’t say that ACE doesn’t have a lot of updating to do and they need to work on that tolerance issue with fervor!
