http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-11-28-schools-evolution_x.htm
"Part of the job of the public school system is to make professional judgments about what children ought to learn," says Jack Krebs, a teacher and vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science. "It doesn't make any sense to give equal time to all these other ideas that are vastly unsupported. It's misleading to kids." I completely agree with this statement. It is ridiculous to me that the nation is increasingly asking for more religion in education... but education is supposed to be based off of FACTS, right? I have no problem whatsoever with people believing in what they want to believe in as long as it is not being imposed upon others, but this is a belief system and when it is taught in the classroom it is doing just that. I understand that Christians believe that Creationism is a fact- but there is no scientific evidence to base it off of, and how do you teach a theory in a classroom where the only evidence to support it comes from religious books? This article says that in western Wisconsin a particular school district requires that alternative theories of evolution be taught, and in Ohio the state school board passed a measure encouraging the teaching of evolution and intelligent design. In 1987 the Supreme Court found that "teaching creationism in public schools violates the constitutionally guaranteed separation of church and state." It seems to me that this is increasingly being ignored... believe what you want to, but to me, religion- of any kind- has no place in public education at all.
"Part of the job of the public school system is to make professional judgments about what children ought to learn," says Jack Krebs, a teacher and vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science. "It doesn't make any sense to give equal time to all these other ideas that are vastly unsupported. It's misleading to kids." I completely agree with this statement. It is ridiculous to me that the nation is increasingly asking for more religion in education... but education is supposed to be based off of FACTS, right? I have no problem whatsoever with people believing in what they want to believe in as long as it is not being imposed upon others, but this is a belief system and when it is taught in the classroom it is doing just that. I understand that Christians believe that Creationism is a fact- but there is no scientific evidence to base it off of, and how do you teach a theory in a classroom where the only evidence to support it comes from religious books? This article says that in western Wisconsin a particular school district requires that alternative theories of evolution be taught, and in Ohio the state school board passed a measure encouraging the teaching of evolution and intelligent design. In 1987 the Supreme Court found that "teaching creationism in public schools violates the constitutionally guaranteed separation of church and state." It seems to me that this is increasingly being ignored... believe what you want to, but to me, religion- of any kind- has no place in public education at all.
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