The article is available here.
You can watch video of the hearings here.
The following was the best quote by a supporter of REAL science that I have seen in quite some time:
But Debra Walker, chairman of the Monroe County School Board, urged passage of the new standards as is. She said the current "political meltdown over Darwinian theory" was proof that too many people had received a poor-quality science education.
She noted that the school districts with some of the lowest science scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test were the ones complaining loudest about the new standards.
"Do we want these boards setting science policy in Florida? I think not."
She noted that the school districts with some of the lowest science scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test were the ones complaining loudest about the new standards.
"Do we want these boards setting science policy in Florida? I think not."
As previously discussed on this blog, when school boards in Florida pass resolutions that call for evolution to be taught as "a theory, and not a fact," they demonstrate that they do not even know the meaning of basic scientific terms.
Do we want these boards influencing the content of science textbooks for the rest of the country?
I think not.
posted by Jeremy Mohn
