[IP] Dover Board gets the boot
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 9, 2005 11:43:23 AM EST
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Dover Board gets the boot
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[Note: This item comes from reader Scott Berry. DLH]
From: Scott Berry <sjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 9, 2005 8:37:34 AM PST
To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Dover Board gets the boot
Ah well, you win some, you lose some. Actually, the Kansas result
is really quite chilling, since it goes way beyond the Dover PA
mandate—it seems to say Kansas teachers are required to say
intelligent design is correct.
I hope the speed with which it is overturned is proportional to how
extreme it is.
Scott
Dover school board booted out in elections
But Kansas mandates teaching of intelligent design
By Lucy Sherriff
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/dover_school_board_booted/>
All eight Dover, Pennsylvania school board members up for re-
election have been booted out after introducing intelligent design
to the science classroom. In their place are a number of those who
campaigned against the policy.
The original school board ruled that intelligent design could be
taught alongside Darwinian evolution, in science classes. A group
of 11 parents decided to challenge the decision in court, on the
grounds that intelligent design is merely creationism in disguise,
and is therefore unconstitutional.
…
Meanwhile in Kansas, the Board of Education has voted to make the
teaching of the principles of intelligent design mandatory.
Science teachers will now be required to instruct their students
that evolutionary theory is not proven, and will have to add that
life is in fact so complex, it could not have arisen without the
involvement of some external agent, or higher power.
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