I distinctly remember a threatened loss of accreditation for BYU when I was a student there due to having ancient archeology with no artifacts for students to work on.

Steve Benson answered my question with his wonderful post on the threats of withdrawn accreditation due to no academic freedom, but I'm remembering one brouhaha which centered around the lack of artifacts from the ancient Book of Mormon lands.

Does anyone have the details on this?


Kathleen Waters

I was wondering if BYU actually funds "research" on finding evidence that supports the BOM? As far as I know, there is no agreement on where the BOM was even suppose to have taken place. North America, Central America or South America?

Do they have a department of Reformed Egyptian?

B.Y.U. is just one piece of the LDS educational system. Lest we forget how many other education opportunities there are that TSCC hasn't provided.

Deseret News 11/30/2003--Yet if the time ever appeared right for the LDS Church — or anyone else — to set up private schools in Utah, it's now. The Legislature is poised to weigh whether to offer income tax credits for private school tuition, which backers say would release pent-up demand for private education.

So why the restraint?

"It has long been the policy of the church not to consider providing elementary and secondary schools where there are adequate public schools available to our members," Elder Henry B. Eyring, church commissioner of education and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, said in an e-mail interview.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/565035550/So-few-LDS-schools.html?pg=all

Yet no schools in CA, AZ, ID even though they're in Mordor? http://www.privateschoolreview.com/religiousSelection/typeReli/19/stateid/UT/all

This doesn't even take in the "reform" schools like White River and Stillwater Academy http://www.turnaboutteens.org/

Who pays for all of these schools? Why aren't there more LDS Montessori schools? I don't want give TSCC any more ideas but the way BYU turns out Child Development specialists, I figured they would have schools in Africa, U.S., Europe, etc...

My sister-in-law has taught at a Mormon parochial school in Utah Valley for some years. The parents are apparently all well-off and pay hefty fees to allow their children to enjoy the privilege of Mormon-approved education in an insular environment that discourages outside thought. She is proud of the school and the bunk that she teaches. When she describes it (in her typically glowing way), you can't help but think of a southern Christian school where the teaching of science, with all its dangers and dark corners, is discouraged.

The school seems to have enough funding to send the kids (and my sister-in-law) on expensive trips. She has taken them to Williamsburg and Our Nation's Capital, where they get fed a hefty dose of jingoism, Mormon-style. In future, I suppose there will be a similar Utah private school named after Jason Chaffetz.

I would trust no history or science that is taught by my sister-in-law.

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1460281

Yo, BYU: Put that in your accreditation pipe and choke it.



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After digging to a depth of 100 meters last year, Japanese scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.
Not to be outdone in the weeks that followed, Chinese scientists dug 200 meters and headlines in the Chinese papers read: "Chinese scientists have found traces of 2000 year old optical fibers and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced high-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Japanese."
One week later, the Deseret News reported the following: "After digging as deep as 800 meters, Mormon archeologists have found absolutely nothing."
They have concluded that 3000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wireless technology.

Wireless technology! That must be how JS translated the BOM.