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"How dare you tell my child that rocks are old!"


By defaithed - Posted on 06 January 2010

Field trip fail

The situation: A school wants to take 6th and 7th graders to a Fossil Discovery Center to attend a Rocks and Mineral Festival.

The problem: Those awful people are going to tell little Johnny – oh heavens! – that rocks are old!

From I bet that kid is popular in class at the Fail Blog: It's a simple field trip permission slip defaced by a barely-literate parent who thinks a Mineral Festival needs to begin and end with Jesus. The scrawl reads:

Note: Just to let you it is not that we don’t believe in things like that, it is just misleading when you talk about it being billions of years old, when we all know that the world is only about 6,000 years old. So why would I pay so that you can misslead my children, your world is just a revolving(?), ours has a start and an end. God created the world. He created animals and man all in the same week. It was also Adam who named all the animals, they will do the essay 'Rock and Minerals' but it might not be 5 pages long, and about billions of years, it will be according to the Bible.

(Hmm, is this from the United States? Hmm, do we even need to ask?)

We can laugh at the idiot parent, but what's being done to the poor kid is just sad.

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I think the $2 cost for the trip absolves the UK here. (First-time visitor, btw - will be back.)

Good eye for detail! (And that's why I'll never be a detective.) Yes, $2.00. 

But wait! I see "Discovery Centre", not "Center" (in the image, not my text where I again missed this detail and got it wrong). So those could be Canadian dollars...

Or Aussie? But then, no, the letter would have to be upside down... (Okay, sorry, that's not at all funny.)

This might be the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre.  Not sure if the parent is Canadian but the ignorant are everywhere.

True. With wacko Creationist stuff like this, the US as source is always a good bet statistically, but Canada and the UK are also good possibilities – and as you note, the lunacy can extend anywhere

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