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This is, very simply, child abuse.

This is layered... Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.

I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different

I told her to listen to her teacher

I've tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn't make it work.

I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you'd insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.

All of this effort just to teach your kids... flat earth?! Could've been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would've been more useful for the child's future.

This physically pains me.

Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?

Reminds me of when I started going to public school and learned about evolution, something my Evangelical parents always taught me was a lie.

Thankfully my education broke me out of that, but it put me behind a little bit.

But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?

So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?

You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(

It's a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.

Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions

Is there a badparents Lemmy group?

Man this is just sad

C'est une parodie. Dites-moi que c'est une parodie.

As a geoscientist and someone who produces maps (and also just as a human who understands science), this particular flavor of willful ignorance blows my mind. It makes me sad for the kids who trust their parents and will eventually have to unlearn this shit or carry on fundamentally misunderstanding the Earth. I also can't help but wonder what jank projection is being used here to display the continents in 2D lol. Looks like a polar projection centered on the north pole which is why the continents are distorted around the edges ending up with a "wall of ice" all around which is really just a very distorted Antarctica. There's a reason we don't use polar projections to represent the Earth on a global scale.

Rabbits

I always wondered...if the earth is flat then what's on the under side? Why haven't we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can't get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?

Humanity is over

The kids are probably having a blast, making up nonsensical shit at that age comes naturally to them