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[featherynscale]

Somebody in Kansas gets a clue.
University to teach intelligent design as modern mythology.

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[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Lots of people in Kansas have clues. Lots and lots of clues. We just can't get elected to the Kansas State Board of Education.

Yet.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wasn't implying that you didn't. But they don't let you design the curriculum (yet), which is a damned shame.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Oh, I knew you didn't mean me. It's just annoying how weird shit comes out of the people in charge of stuff, that no one really wants in the first place.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Also, this article says that how things are taught is largely left up to the local school board. Is that still true? Where does the 'Dotte sit on the ID issue?

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

By and large, I find WYCO to be fairly progressive. It's full of Democrats, as it would happen. We haven't heard one peep about having to change anything, and if we had, the science teacher on my team would have been bitching about it. Of course, they're studying the endocrine system right now, so I doubt it came up. :-)

A non-evolution related fer instance: two of the pretty big movers and shakers in the district are two women, former nuns, who are openly living together. It isn't bandied about necessarily, but it's out there, and no one bats an eye.

And you don't hear of any big censorship issues coming out of WYCO either. It's an odd mix of NASCAR redneck, Black Baptist preacher, and liberal Democrat out here. Sometimes all in the same person.