Hoskins on CM

elena spectra at rousse.bg400.bg
Thu Aug 12 09:08:27 PDT 1999


Thanks, everybody!

How can non-fundamentalist parents make THEIR against the restrictions (ok, if not the ban)? Or other religious, but non-Christian parents? some questions:
>CHICAGO -- The Kansas Board of Education voted on Wednesday to delete
>virtually any mention of evolution from the state's science
>curriculum, in one of the most far-reaching efforts by creationists
>in recent years to challenge the teaching of evolution in schools
It comes up later in the text, that the Board is elected - each state separately? it doesn't consist of experts in different fields but of politicians/sponsors/parents? what can parents do (if anything) when they don't agree with the programmes adopted by the school (eg. if they want secular education)? there's nothing in the article to show that the debate over evolutionism got on a wider basis, to involve parents or ask teachers' opinions (on a large scale, not just for the paper interview) - is this the practice, profs write, board vetos/approves, and that's it? and, the writer suggests that teachers' persecution is possible (if i understood correctly). Is studying religion compulsory? Is it study of the Bible from a Xtian standpoint, or do they allow (logically, should require) alternative interpretatiopns and criticisms? Other religions?

Sounds macabre.



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