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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by vel0city on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:24PM (#38091580)
I personally know multiple people who homeschooled their kids to avoid discussing evolution. There's even been debate at state board of education levels about how evolution is taught in public schools. There's absolutely a lot of people who want to teach their kids humans and dinos existed at the same time.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by lolinder on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:06PM (#38092077)
I think their point wasn't that religious parents wouldn't be concerned about evolution too, but that in 2021 they would have expected LGBT issues to be at the forefront of the religious right's fears surrounding public schools.

For the parental fears to center on evolution either suggests either that the parents were censoring their larger concerns for OP, or it's an anachronism that brings the chronology into question.

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