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    Summary: TN house passes a law protecting public school teachers who "question" science curriculum in class. Coded meaning: **** you, Darwin.



    Why the **** are we still fighting this battle in 20-mother****ing-11? This country is such a goddamn laughingstock.
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    Only a matter til it's struck down, same as the Intelligent Design law earlier. Then we can hear about how our wicked activist judges are enforcing the first amendment.
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    • #3
      dem white sutherners . . . . .
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      • #4
        Stop that you queen
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        • #5
          I can't help it - it's compulsive behavior.
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          • #6
            Teachers want to be free to question what they want to question in The Land of Freedom
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              The South
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              • #8
                I have no problem with teachers mentioning ID in the classroom as long as it's done in the proper framework.

                One theory is evolution and is regarded highly in the scientific world. However there is another theory called ID that is highly regarded by those ignorant and superstitious.
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                • #9
                  ID is fine in a class about philosophy/etc.

                  It doesn't have a place in a science classroom.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_1...07-501465.html


                    Summary: TN house passes a law protecting public school teachers who "question" science curriculum in class.
                    No
                    The bill's provisions call upon state schools and administrators "to create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues."
                    Says nothing about teachers questioning things only that students are encouraged to have a questioning attitude while remaining civil towards opposing viewpoints.


                    Seems rather benign despite the hyperbole in the article that this is intended as a sop towards itelligent design. Personally I am more offended that this took time up in the state legislature at all. Talk about waste.
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                    • #11
                      Good, now teachers can offer alternatives to gravity such as intelligent falling.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe View Post
                        No


                        Says nothing about teachers questioning things only that students are encouraged to have a questioning attitude while remaining civil towards opposing viewpoints.


                        Seems rather benign despite the hyperbole in the article that this is intended as a sop towards itelligent design. Personally I am more offended that this took time up in the state legislature at all. Talk about waste.
                        Originally posted by the ****ing article
                        It also contains a provision saying that "teachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught."
                        The teacher gets to 'help' the students critique the theories they're being taught.

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                        • #13
                          Let's not forget that we should include the "theory" that the Sun orbits around the Earth.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by gribbler View Post
                            The teacher gets to 'help' the students critique the theories they're being taught.
                            When was that ever not the case? Great googlie mooglie, what a tempest in a teapot. Learning about sceintific method is, was, and should always be an elementary subject reinforced when one does labs in secondary school.
                            Last edited by Ogie Oglethorpe; April 11, 2011, 17:09.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                              http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_1...07-501465.html

                              Summary: TN house passes a law protecting public school teachers who "question" science curriculum in class. Coded meaning: **** you, Darwin.
                              You aren't going to find many accredited/licensed/whatever it's called science teachers who believe in creationism anyways, I imagine.

                              Why the **** are we still fighting this battle in 20-mother****ing-11? This country is such a goddamn laughingstock.
                              I don't understand--did the Tennessee house pass this for the whole US or just Tennessee? Because from what you're saying here, it would sound like the entire US now teaches creationism as opposed to just rural Tennessee farmers.
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