{"id":8291,"date":"2010-07-09T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/09\/dumb-canadians-get-to-maintain\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:57:33","slug":"dumb-canadians-get-to-maintain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/dumb-canadians-get-to-maintain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Canadians Get to Maintain Dumb Standards for their Dumb Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we&#8217;re talking about bigots and creationists in Alberta, which I figure is more or less the Canadian equivalent of Texas &#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/about.php#YourState\">the dumbest province in the Great White North.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nStarting this coming school year, parents will be able to &#8220;opt&#8221; their children &#8220;out&#8221; of certain lessons, such as those that deal in any way with Teh Gay, or with religion.  Apparently, it is thought that science that conflicts with religion will be counted as religion, so that means kids can get out of science classes.<\/p>\n<p>And I would not assume that this applies only to evolution.  Math, physics, all of it conflicts with religion (especially physics &#8230;. the evidence for an old earth comes from that field of science, not evolution).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troymedia.com\/?p=12291\">Read all about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we&#8217;re talking about bigots and creationists in Alberta, which I figure is more or less the Canadian equivalent of Texas &#8230;. the dumbest province in the Great White North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,183,156,2486,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-29J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}