Many in Texas are worried by McLeroy’s record:
Dr. McLeroy was one of four board members who voted against proposed high school biology textbooks because he felt their coverage of evolution was “too dogmatic” and did not include possible flaws in Charles Darwin’s theory of how life on Earth evolved from lower forms.
McLeroy, though, has his reasons:
Dr. McLeroy said his vote on the biology books had nothing to do with censorship or religion and was based on “good science.”
“It is wrong to teach opinion as fact,” he said.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Creationist picked for head of Texas state board of education.
They still are trying to get their hands on those subversive science textbooks:
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Thanks; I missed that. It's no surprise to me... my late father, a public school science teacher, appeared quite a few times before the state textbook committee, fighting exactly this sort of nonsense (or should I say "nonscience")... but it always amazes me that it still goes on in this day and age.
I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know whether state school board appointments require legislative confirmation or not. I'll check, though as successfully as Tom DeLay redrew the district lines a few years back (i.e., as successfully as the Lege was rendered overwhelmingly Republican, even though no voters' minds were changed in the process), I doubt any Perry appointment could be turned back anyway.
Thanks to your dad, a few generations of students got a complete education.
God knows (pun intended) where the fundamentalists would take this warping of the school's agenda for religion's sake... but we can guess.
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