Dover Board gets the boot

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
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 () optonline net>
> Date: November 9, 2005 8:37:34 AM PST
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> 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.
>
> [snip]

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