Getty Images "We need to take you downtown for a few questions about your baptism practices, sir." There isn't even any record of a figure call Anup the Baptizer the closest we come is Anubis, the god of embalming, which astute readers will note is a leeeeeetle different from baptism. Horus, like Mithras, was also never resurrected, didn't have 12 apostles, and didn't raise Asar from the dead (which doesn't translate to "Lazarus" even a little bit). Contrary to Maher's claims, Mithras was never resurrected, and the older versions of the guy's story don't have any of the Jesus similarities - those came about in the first or second century A.D. Let's start with the "virgin births" part: You've gotta make some pretty big logical jumps to claim that any of those earlier gods were born from virgins, having come from a mother seven times over (Krishna), some freaky necrophilia (Horus), and a fucking rock (Mithras). Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images "Yep, you've graduated! Now please get out of our school." Shit, being left behind is starting to sound awesome. And that ghetto public school might not actually be so bad: According to administrators from Woodside High School, which the film claims only sends a third of its students to college and only graduates 62 percent of them, the film excluded students who go to out-of-state colleges in their statistics, and their graduation rate is more like 92 percent. In the movie, not getting into a charter school is the worst thing that can happen to a poor family, but studies have shown that school choice itself matters little to a student's success - shockingly, it's more about how seriously the students themselves and their families take their education. It turns out that when teacher pay and/or school funding is tied to student performance, a model that the film advocates, it opens the door for all kinds of shady shit, including flat-out expelling low-performing students the day before the test to boost their numbers. One of the administrators of a school shown in the film, the Harlem Children's Zone, expelled an entire class of children that he feared would throw off his glowing performance statistics. The film focuses on the charters that perform better, of course, but at least one of those is achieving its results through fishy means. Unfortunately the director went to a charter school, so math isn't his greatest strength.
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