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Old 03-10-2004, 11:06 AM   #3093
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Originally posted by bilmore
I don't know any of the religious-incented (is that a word now?) home schoolers - they're all people dissatisfied with what the public schools have to offer, the lack of discipline, and the constantly changing "standards". Parents of one set of kids are still upset that Kucinich did so poorly.

Looking to the ideological basis of the NEA, the general political cant of most every teacher in (at least) our district, and all of the huge inefficiencies that are now built in to our education system, I think it's laughable to call people who want to get out of that system the ideologues. I guess it's only "lockstep" when it's not the system YOU would choose. When it's your own system, apparently it's a "consensus."
In the great State of Ohio, however, the wingnuts have been successful in the wedge theory. Homeschooling doesn't look so bad to me right now.

Panel OKs disputed 10th-grade biology plan

Columbus- A sharply divided state school board Tuesday narrowly approved a controversial 10th-grade biology lesson that scientists fear will allow creationism into high school science classrooms.

The board voted 10-7 to include the 22-page lesson, "Critical Analysis of Evolution," as part of the state's 547 pages of model lesson plans for science. The board then approved the entire package of science lessons by a 13-5 vote.

The state is now bracing itself for an almost certain legal challenge. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio said it is monitoring the fate of the disputed lesson plan and whether it will sue. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 struck down creation science in schools on the grounds that it was a religion rather than a science.

"This is religiously bent and it's sending a message to local boards of education that they can circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court," said board member Martha Wise of Avon.

http://www.cleveland.com/debate/inde...4742102330.xml

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