According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a parent who believes the earth is 14,000 years old has gotten An Inconvenient Truth removed from school screening. Jesus wept.
So "...any teachers who have shown the film must now present an 'opposing view.'"
The way our nation's education system is going, I find it hard to believe that we aren't already offering as a credible alternative to God creating everything in 7 days the theta explosion of Dianetics.
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I always think it is sound educational practice to present an opposing view to scientific facts.
I concur. It is sound educational practice to present opposing scientific views to scientific data. It is even appropriate to mention clearly non-scientific, dogmatic, crazy-ass flight-of-fancy garbage that opposes scientific data, if you're clearly labeling it as what it is. For this reason I have no issue with mentioning various cultural and religious creation myths when discussing natural selection, punctuated equilibrium, etc.
But do you think it is sound educational practice to stop sharing widely accepted scientific research (let's say, that medicine can often help with illnesses) with students because a parent (let's say, a Christian Scientist) thinks it is wrong? That's basically what is happening in Federal Way schools.
Perhaps my sarcasm did not come through in the previous email. Although doesn't Jeebus always trump science?
How embarrassing :-) Your sarcasm hit so close to home that it squeezed a knee-jerk reply out of me. 5 points to Jenny.
There needs to be some sort of emoticon or sign to show a sarcastic remark. Sometimes it is too easy to take a person at face value. Or am I being sarcastic now?
:-|
Is that for real? Or am I from a generation too cynical to believe anyone anymore?
I think we're both members of generation :-|
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