<h2>For all the faults of public school, and many are truly broken, the notion of vouchering kids for a school like this: </h2>
<p>At Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, pastor-turned-principal Marie Carrier hopes to secure extra space to enroll 135 voucher students, though she now has room for just a few dozen. Her first- through eighth-grade students sit in cubicles for much of the day and move at their own pace through Christian workbooks, such as a beginning science text that explains “what God made” on each of the six days of creation. They are not exposed to the theory of evolution.</p>
<h2>“We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children,” Carrier said.</h2>
<p>is just flat out scary. I see little difference between schools like these that knowingly replace a fact-based curriculum with fundamentalist Christian pablum and those in Saudi Arabia full of school texts that demonize Christians and Jews. All groups, including most US public school systems, carry some level of bias toward a specific curriculum, but Louisiana’s decision will, mark my words, produce a generation of problems, ranging from kids being graduated thinking faith is the same thing as fact to thousands of kids being mishandled by for-profit institutions that care about shareholder return and not the education of the students, just like we’re seeing now with some of the horrible for-profit “universities.”</p>