Let There Be Science in Science Class
According to the Wilmington Star-News the school board of Brunswick North Carolina is considering putting creationism in the science curriculum. Says board member, Jimmy Hobbs, “It’s really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism. The law says we can’t have Bibles in schools, but we can have evolution, of the atheists.”
Though declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1987, as well as plenty of lesser courts, teaching creationism
Ugh, that drives me CRAZY when fundamentalists try to argue with me and they falsely state that public schools have banned celebration of holidays, teaching about religions, etc. Have these people who claim to be so invested in their religion really not bothered to look at the court rulings or the NEA guidelines?
Also, I’d be the first person to welcome a curriculum that looks at different global viewpoints on each of the subjects we teach. They just can’t be teaching myths as fact. I would love it if public schools taught that many Jews and Christians and Muslims believe the world was created by G-d, and their creation story goes like this, and they could learn about how the books of the various bibles were written at all different times, and were originally passed down orally long before being written down, and they could read articles by various rabbis and scholars about how when the bible was written, it was popular to talk in poetry and metaphors, and so Genesis/B’reishit refers to the six “days” in which the world was created, even though we of course know that this is poetry, and they were more like millions of years each.
This is so outrageous and makes me so angry. Public schools are of the state. We are supposed to have separation of church and state. Creationism can be taught at home or in Sunday school for families who want that. Members of every other religion practice their religions separately from the public school curriculum.
The day they start teaching their bible-thumping in classrooms is the day I start homeschooling.
Unfortunately, if McCain/Palin success in their shenanigans, that day will probably be soon.