Yes, Evangelicals Are Worsening the Illiteracy Crisis
Genetically Modified Skeptic | 14 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42H2pF5zuM
1:02 C. S. Lewis would have agreed on that one.
Don't use long words when you can use short ones. Don't implement promises, keep them.
He was somewhat sensitive to prole critics. When he was asking what "stirabout" was (correct answer: porridge), he was taken to be affected. Coming from a pretty upper class* home, he had simply never heard it. He'd have been proud to use it if he had known it.
1:37 Did he ever even give an example?
I think Grand Canyon isn't one. "1 billion years missing" between two of the layers, plus, I don't think it has much Mesozoic or Tertiary.
If you can't refute, a FacePalm like Milo gave is always a rhetoric promise one is coming.
I'm part time homeschooled by ma. She was a ninth grade med student and working in hospitals as "intern" (does the word exist in English?) for most of my childhood and early parts of my teens. She was Young Earth Creationist, and certainly no mediocrity at science.
I was learning the laws of Mendel in what would have been 3rd or 4th grade (homeschooled parts of 4th grade, but it could have been in parallel with 3rd grade school chores).
3:28 I look the school up:
More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, more than 1 million Black and Hispanic students study in Texas classrooms that include few to no white students. State leaders and education officials are working to give all students more educational opportunities but have largely abandoned racial integration as a tool for equity.
Wheatley High School**
https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/houston-isd/wheatley-high-school/demographics/
Neither Ebonics nor Spanish nor Spanglish is the spoken language that standard English is a written form of.
That very obviously affects the mastery of English.
And by the way, neither is heavily dialectal English among white populations, Ozarks is not Texas, but you know what I mean.
The students of these schools, I've taught at an all-white but heavily rural one in Sweden, do not think of school as a way to a good future, and they in their turn don't go all that far to receive instruction which they don't think will benefit them. And while I wasn't there at their peak of investments, I don't think many countries in the West have the kind of resources that really would be needed to get students inspiring teachers (I wasn't one, I was counting on inspired students and not finding them).
5:09 Mississippi wasn't dealing with large groups that read very much less well than a very significant portion.
Mississippi was as such a backwater, and they were taking this as a team effort to come out of that backwater.
Just as the school I taught at had done in the sixties.
Houston isn't a backwater, literacy significantly exists, and the students the poor teacher was crying about are people who can very realistically say "that won't be me" ...
6:22 I am looking at the funding claim you made about Texas.
Texas public schools are funded primarily from local governments. In the 2023–2024 school year, the most recent year of available data, about 47.7% of Texas public school funding came from local sources like property taxes. Another 38.6% came through state programs, and the federal government provided the remaining 13.7%. Altogether, public schools in Texas received $89.4 billion in funding, or $16,200 per student.
How are public schools in Texas funded?
USA Facts | Updated Sep. 30, 2026
https://usafacts.org/answers/how-are-public-schools-in-the-us-funded/state/texas/
This summer, Texas began rolling out $1 billion in public funding that eligible families can put toward private education expenses.
Taxpayers are funding private school tuition. It's helping classical Christian schools expand
By: The Associated Press | Posted 1:08 PM, Oct 21, 2026
https://www.kxxv.com/news/texas-news/taxpayers-are-funding-private-school-tuition-its-helping-classical-christian-schools-expand
So, one billion out of 89.4 billion is "draining"?
I tend to believe you your homeschooling parents neglected maths!
My part time homeschooling mother very much didn't!
6:46 "on the right side of history"
O K ... you ditched belief in God and became a bit too unsceptic about Historicism.
You know claims that history has a direction. Sure, Christianity makes some claims we can't be sceptic about, like it began in Eden and will pass by Armageddon before it gets better, but I mean other claims about history. Like "Lincoln was the right side of history" (I came to think of how much the North states case has to do with Capitalism and the South with rural solidarity after being reminded of the Irish Holodomor, sorry Gorta Mór by Capitalism). Or "Fascism is the wrong side of history" (note, I said Fascism, not National Socialism ... but those guys definitely thought of themselves quite a bit too much as being "the right side of history" ...)
History isn't a moral arbiter. It's not a good replacement for a Creator creating us in His image on where we get morals from.
LGBTQ would by now involve the T of Trans, and that advocacy would probably put actual guys into girls' locker rooms ...
6:53 "science tells us what's real, compassion what's right"
1) This puts "right" outside the realm of "real".
2) Science competes with science, as Milo Rossi illustrated by responding to a scientific claim by creationists with a Facepalm.
3) Compassion competes with compassion, as can be seen from the Christa Pike case.
So, I'm not a Humanist, I'm a Christian, and will remain so.
9:04 I'm not a 100 % fan of ACE social sciences.
However, before they were in the field, a social science teacher had actually made me part time (age 13 up to 15) nearly National Socialist.
She also taught history in grade 7 or 8, whichever it was, and her complaints about National Socialism include the encouragement for mothers to stay at home.
In other words, Social Science came with a very loaded agenda well before ACE came with their loaded agenda in that subject.
Their Loch Ness gaffe is on the level of public school gaffes about history in France. Have you heard a Church council decided women have souls, or that 9 million witches were burned?
Well, that's a very indirect and distorted access to the actual data in either case. The council, during a pause, corrected a young bishop on grammar, yes, a woman can be called "homo" (Latin for man) because it means "human being" (as Americans pronounce "man" in this sense). The number comes from taking a very small principality of Holy Roman Empire, multiplying that rate by all the current human population and then that again by so many centuries (despite the same locality having no big witch burnings in other centuries), which also involves a misreading about when they began.
And yet feminists will gladly put this kind of thing out in public schools.
10:32 That's about as sensible*** as saying French tax payers paid for the jewels of the King's sister.
148 864 livres on three to four years on 5 billion livres per year.
Or 1 billion dollar on a total school spending in Texas of 89.4 billion dollars.
To be continued? I stopped at 10:32 out of 24 minutes, but he just reaffirmed his bad maths, so I think this is the right place to stop./HGL
Resources on feminist fake propaganda: What Were the Witch-hunts Really Like? and (in French) Pour mon prof de latin, les coupables de cette confusion étaient les Lumières
* Actually middle class. Upper middle class, probably, but still middle class. Lawyer, not landowner. But 19th C, even upper middle class could have servants. Now, not so much, and you think "upper class" even if it wasn't.
** Also states that "the campus student population was 61.5% Black and 96.4% economically disadvantaged."
*** His point was tax payers were paying that pretty small ACE school. Which is obviously a very minuscule part of the 1 billion dollar overall.
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