I am not worried about any of the Top 5 Parent Worries, and am worried about some of the actual worries. Does that mean I win something?

Right?

Yeah, aurelia. I totally want to go to that place.

Does that mean I win something?

Sanity? I'm picturing a nice certificate with a big red "SANE" stamped across it a la the Simpsons.

I've seen a few other articles on those geocentric folks and their conference. Here's a Gallup poll that shows the US isn't much worse than other countries when it comes to geocentricism.

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Probing a more universal measure of knowledge, Gallup also asked the following basic science question, which has been used to indicate the level of public knowledge in two European countries in recent years: "As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?" In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around. These results are comparable to those found in Germany when a similar question was asked there in 1996; in response to that poll, 74% of Germans gave the correct answer, while 16% thought the sun revolved around the earth, and 10% said they didn't know. When the question was asked in Great Britain that same year, 67% answered correctly, 19% answered incorrectly, and 14% didn't know.

For the record: both my 7 year old and my 4 year old know the earth revolves around the sun, although the little one gets confused about the difference between rotation and revolution. Also he refuses to believe that the sun is a star.

Spidra, your link reminds me of the State Hopital in Traverse City, MI except that most of the external architecture is being saved. Here's what it was a few years ago [link] and here's what it is now [link]

The history of the place is documented beautifully in the photography book Angels in the Architecture [link]

I remember when I was in first grade I got into an argument with a classmate - I said the Earth revolved around the Sun and the other kid said the Sun went around the Earth. To get support for my case, I asked a second-grader (because I figured a second grader would be smarter). The second grader said the Sun went around the Earth. I gave up the argument at that point.

Also he refuses to believe that the sun is a star.

Did you explain the Sun is just a star that we're really close to (relative to other stars)?

Yeah, I can see that being confusing to a small child.

That's what got me into pre-K private school early. They had me answer a few questions to see if I could go (born in Nov.).

Teacher asked, "In which direction does the sun set?" I rolled my eyes and explained very very patiently that the sun doesn't really set, the earth revolves around the sun and also completes a turn itself, so the sun hasn't gone anywhere, we're just not where we can see it.

They pretty readily agreed to let me in.

explained very very patiently

I'm picturing an exasperated tiny person rolling her eyes and thinking the grownups are very, very stupid.