"Ok, so here's the theme for this one: you're in the 1890s and you've just seen your first lightbulb. All you know is it runs on electricity instead of oil, and that some fucking idiot caught some electricity in a jar during a lightning storm. Go!"

There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain

Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.

Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.

My brother in America I have felt electricity and I can say exactly what it's like.

If you still don't believe though I will gladly share the secret of how to feel it for yourself. You need only bring a fork.

This is the stupidest shit I have heard in my life. Ever seen fucking sparks? Ever had to deal with static electricity? What do they mean they don't know where electricity comes from? We have power plants and an entire grid to provide electricity. The ways to generate electricity is extremely well known and are common fucking knowledge... I mean I learned it as a kid from cartoons and video games.

Tide comes in tide goes out. Can't explain that.

This feels like a projection of their deity. Did they want to conflate the mystery of their god to the mystery of electricity? I guess I'm a theist now...

Next chapter needs to be: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

I swear I saw somewhere Texas schools gives out these books

ISBN please— full title and author will help too

Guess there are no Christian electricians then...

Now, i usually don't advocate for book burning, but this one is making a compelling case

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.

Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.

Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can't explain that.

When was this written? Also, it's not entirely untrue to say that we know what electromagnetic force does, but not what causes it. They say it's a 'fundamental force', which is basically way of saying we can't further reduce it to explain in terms of other stuff. We don't know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are - we can only describe their effects on the world with maths ('what they do')

Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that

I somehow have the feeling that this is simply ragebait... if not, well... can someone please take away the printing press from those people? Please?

This reads like a Look Around You narration

And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.

Index Tome 5

Meanwhile banned Books in Schools (Dangerous stuff)

I'm understanding more and more how a stupid pedo_asshole can be voted as president by so much people.

Found a site with some more fun excerpts:

https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/

This just in, no one has ever seen lightning, and if you say you have, we’ll have to burn you at the stake to protect the children.

This is for real? How is it even legal?