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One small step but one giant leap yet to come.

A Louisiana board bans creationism
by NCSE posted on December 20, 2012 12:06AM GMT
The Orleans Parish School Board "OK'd policies that prohibit the teaching of creationism or so-called 'intelligent design' in its half-dozen direct-run schools, or the purchasing of textbooks that promulgate those perspectives," according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (December 18, 2012). As specified in the documents for the board's December 18, 2012, meeting, the new policies provide (PDF, pp. 100 and 101), in part, that no "science textbook [shall] be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories" and that "[no] teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes."
 
Lowaicue said:
One small step but one giant leap yet to come.

A Louisiana board bans creationism
by NCSE posted on December 20, 2012 12:06AM GMT
The Orleans Parish School Board "OK'd policies that prohibit the teaching of creationism or so-called 'intelligent design' in its half-dozen direct-run schools, or the purchasing of textbooks that promulgate those perspectives," according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (December 18, 2012). As specified in the documents for the board's December 18, 2012, meeting, the new policies provide (PDF, pp. 100 and 101), in part, that no "science textbook [shall] be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories" and that "[no] teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes."
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Poor, poor Bobby...

It's a step up that's certain. Good news...but what about all the rest of the schools?

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There's more....this is looking better all the time!!

The school board for Orleans Parish in Louisiana voted Tuesday night to ban the teaching of creationism as science and what they called a “revisionist” history curriculum promoted by the state of Texas.

None of the six schools run by the board actually teach creationism, according to The Times-Picayune, but outgoing Orleans Parish School Board President Thomas Robichaux felt strongly about the measure (PDF) anyway, which passed in two parts.

The first policy change pertains to the selection of textbooks. “No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the State of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories,” it reads.


The second policy change prohibits teachers from taking the matter into their own hands. “No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class,” it reads. “No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes.”

The school district is not alone in pushing back against growing religious and conservative influence on science and history curriculum. When education officials in Texas began altering textbooks to reflect right-wing and religious viewpoints, lawmakers in California acted quickly to pass a bill that bans the state’s revisionist standards in California schools.

The debate, of course, did not start with Texas, although the nation’s second-largest state has done more than any other in recent years to lead actual changes in school curriculum. Officials in other states are particularly concerned about Texas’s changes because the state can tend to influence how the nation’s most widely accepted textbooks are written.


Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xoXP)
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This has been planned by the religious right for years...the tactic is that because Texas is so large they can determine the curriculum for the nation...so they write the textbooks to reflect their religious views rather than facts. Lowbrow to say the least.
 
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