[darthoctopus]

is pissing certain people off your primary consideration in deciding how you educate your kids?

[pjkundert]

No; but it is a signal that indicates whether we're going in the right direction, or at least not in the wrong direction.

When groups whose primary motivation seems to indoctrinate innocents into a cult are pissed -- then I'm less worried.

Demanding mental assent to questionable claims to avoid punishment, regardless of questions about the predictive failure or successful outcomes of testing the hypotheses underlying those claims seems ... culty.

And, there's a lot of that in modern public schooling.

The first thing I ask my daughter whenever someone tells her to believe something, is "how could you know?". Quite often, the claimant has assiduously avoided informing her about how they "know" their claim is true. It's astonishing.

[squigz]

> No; but it is a signal that indicates whether we're going in the right direction, or at least not in the wrong direction.

This is... sadly contrarian, and really makes no logical sense.

[matrix87]

do you have any specific examples?

[rhelz]

> When groups whose primary motivation seems to indoctrinate innocents into a cult are pissed

Sounds to me you are worried that these "groups" won't let you indoctrinate innocents into your own cult.