Isn't it horribly unjust for a parent to crush their child's hopes of a career in life science by making sure they go to a school that won't teach them the truth about how life works?
Personally, I tried answering as nicely as I could... but I got blacked, so apparently that parent really doesn't want to hear what "disbelief" in evolution will do to her child's dreams of working with animals. Unless she volunteers at a shelter or something, she'll never get the necessary degree.
2007-10-22 05:39:04 · 22 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry about the poorly phrased sentence. What I meant was that the kid has no chance of working with animals unless she volunteers BECAUSE she'll never get a marketable biology degree from such a university.
2007-10-22 05:43:35 · update #1
Opinionated, I just think it's sad. Maybe she can work with animals in by flipping them on a grill or something.
Parent can raise their kids as they see fit, sure. But I think deliberately stunting their intellectual growth is pretty bad...
2007-10-22 05:46:22 · update #2
bama, I wasn't "in" their business until the person asked on an open forum, so I think that is rather a moot point.
But not wanting to hear that she is destroying her child's chance of doing what she wants by denying her a proper education suggests to me that the parent does not want her child to be intellectually fulfilled.
2007-10-22 05:50:04 · update #3
Paige, I'm willing to bet you do not work in biology. I wonder why.
2007-10-22 05:51:21 · update #4
Edge, that is good... it makes me feel better for the child.
2007-10-22 05:56:33 · update #5
coffee, it was not meant to be "insulting" to anyone. I'm just stunned that aparent would do that to their child.
2007-10-22 06:01:15 · update #6
You can reject evolution and still have a good career in science. I have multiple degrees in biology and I am a Christian and a creationist. I reject the idea that some single celled organism developed into all the life on Earth. I am fine with microevolution. Which I know many people say it is the same thing. I don't see it that way. I am a published scientist working on my PhD. My degrees are from a state college. You can believe in God and still work in science.
Also let me add that rejecting the molecules to man argument does not cause me any problems. It quite frankly is not that important.
2007-10-22 05:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is horrible. Christian schools stress lack of education because they think it gets in the way of their god or their bible. It's truly sad to see kids like that. What's even sadder is that they *know* they're crippling their kids' education by sending them to a Christian school.
For a while when I was a kid, I got stuck in a Christian school. When I transferred to a public school in the 6th grade, my math level was 2nd grade. It wasn't because of me or my lack of ability, it was because the Christian school did not teach it. And I never saw science until 6th grade. The history was bible and church history, not the usual world history, and the literature (we actually had grammar and spelling, believe it or not) was the Bible. Pretty closed off from the rest of the world, huh?
And if they want to do good in college, they have to have extra help at home, like a tutor, or they have to go to a Christian college, most of which are unaccredited; also, people know that degrees from a Christian school are inferior, and they can't get jobs! Without a tutor, they cannot do well, academically or socially, in a secular college or university. I've seen that happen to my own family.
My daughter is only 1 and my mom is already wanting me to send her to a Christian school, knowing how pathetic I think they are, and knowing that I'm no longer Christian! I told her that I would *never* send my kid to a Christian school. I actually care about her education and her future. The Christian god is not the be all and end all to life.
2007-10-22 07:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Those with this opinion must volunteer for euthanasia. At a minimal they must line up for volunatary sterilization. If her mom was once actually proud she must sterilize her daughter. Let her are living what she beleives. (sure greater than severe to do that to a baby, however so is instructing a baby they must now not exist.) If they decline both or either one of those then they're of direction blatant hypocrites.
2016-09-05 19:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be abhorrently crippling to this child's future or any child for that matter. One might think all actors are immoral liberals but thankfully my parents let me make my own decisions about my future. My parents are strict Roman Catholic. Not that I answer to my parents now that I'm in my 30's but I am thankful that they understood even if they didn't agree. I also paid for my own education so it took things out of their hands but their opinion still carried a lot of gravity.
2007-10-22 05:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by Yogini 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats disgusting. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what you could do personally to fix it. You can't force a parent to put the child in a proper school unless you prove that the child is being abused in some way.
2007-10-22 05:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I would not worry an awful lot about it. Most of the kids that graduate these days don't learn a lot anyways.. If the kid wants to go to college it is not like they don't have preparatory biology courses to get them up to speed..
2007-10-22 05:50:58 · answer #6 · answered by Radictis 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's sad really. But there isn't anything you can do. Until she turns 18, the parents have control over where she goes to school. She could probably take courses in community college and then transfer to another college.
2007-10-22 05:48:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes,it is amasing how parents can give there child such a one-sided view on life with a closed mind.I heard of a christian scienctist who let there chld die rather than going to the doctor because they believed God would heal them if they where meant to get better and doctors where unneccessary or against God
2007-10-22 05:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats a tough one. but i believe that the child's parents have every right to raise their child the way they feel they should. that is their decision. this is a tough question that i really dont think has a right or wrong answer. what you say is "crippling" another might say is "healthy". so does that mean you are more right than they are? no. but you are also no more wrong than they are.
2007-10-22 05:46:50 · answer #9 · answered by timwoodmusic 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Parents try time and time again to live through there children and in the process they do hurt there kids by not letting there kids be themselves and having there own dreams and goals, it is sad.
2007-10-22 05:53:54 · answer #10 · answered by simple serenity 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋