talk about passing the buck...

[acroyear]

NCSE Resource:

[Mississippi] Senate Bill 2427, however, is still alive. If enacted, the bill would ensure that "[n]o local school board, school superintendent or school principal shall prohibit a public school classroom teacher from discussing and answering questions from individual students on the issue of flaws or problems which may exist in Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the existence of other theories of evolution, including, but not limited to, the Intelligent Design explanation of the origin of life."

In other words, if a teacher is a creationist, they can teach ID Creation (proven to be religious creationism and unconstitutional) and re-enforce any doubts about evolution that kids might have because of bullshit they were told by some comic books based on Wells's Icons fiction.

However, if a teacher is an evolutionist, they can criticize ID and the creationist arguments as they should, yet potentially be abusive by criticising the kids "faith" (or at least, accused as doing so, even if they were "fair" or tried to avoid the topic of religion entirely as they should).

Finally, if the teacher doesn't have the background to handle the questions at all, they look stupid in front of the class and lose the respect necessary to get any lesson across at all.

So the teacher  gets screwed every way and everybody else is off the hook...

Why don't they just get rid of biology classes entirely?

Comments

[melydia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the authors of that bill need to be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

RAmen.