[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's a long article filled with numbers and names. It's worth reading if you're following this.

I just don't see the same outrage in education circles when a Marxist teaches in the classroom.

A CLASS STRUGGLE: Tenure of Avowed Marxist Controversy jolts College***...."In a nutshell, it means I have a fundamental disagreement with capitalism," he said. "I think that capitalism is a system based on exploitation and oppression and domination and racism and war and lots of other things.

"So I'm totally opposed to capitalism, and I think that the majority of the people of this country ought to get together and transform the system," he said. "I think we need to replace capitalism with some kind of democratic socialism." ...***

[aaronkinney]

"In two states, 40 percent of biology teachers say they allow little or no class time for evolutionary theory, a fundamental part of modern biology."

The above is a blessing, and I am happy to see it that way. Evolutionists and Humanists are biasing schools by asserting evolution is where man came from, it is about time Creationism gave the Humanists a taste of their own medicine.

[jazzlite]

Years ago, when I was taking my college sociology class, I learned that people in free nations will ignore irrational rules and laws. It seems that we have a good number of teachers who understand they are primary "transmitters" of knowledge from one generation to the next, who are unwilling to spread an unproven theory as truth, ruling out all others thoughts or ideas. God bless them and more power to them!

[burzum]

There's a consistent, a significant number of biology teachers in public schools who are creationists," says Randy Moore, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota who has written extensively on what might be called the "closet creationism" in public schools. "Despite decades of science education reform, these numbers have remained pretty consistent."

The great majority of science teachers accept and teach evolutionary theory, but in a national survey this year, one-third of teachers said that they have faced pressure to marginalize the subject, chiefly from parents and students, and that they often do so to avoid conflicts.

It is not their place to determine the educational standards. If they will not do their jobs they need to be fired immediately.

I am not necessarily for evolution or creationism in this context, but I have little patience for teachers who take politics into the classroom, right or left. If we praise these teachers then we will have to keep quiet the next time a teacher brings leftist propaganda into the classroom.

When I was in the military we used to fine and demote sailors who would drink underage. While noone agreed with the policy (if you willing to die for your country you should be able to have a beer), we follow the laws. Why? Because that was our job. Teachers have jobs as well that require them to follow the policies.

[Just mythoughts]

It is worse than I thought. Wonder if students are required to 'rat' out the Creator accepting nonconformists?

[md2576]

"There's a consistent, a significant number of biology teachers in public schools who are creationists," says Randy Moore, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota.

In Other Words:

"There's a consistent, a significant number of biology teachers in public schools who believe in God,"

So this is a bad thing why? Making too much out of nothing here. If they were bible thumping I'm sure a lawsuit would be filed to stop them.

[VOA]

In two states, 40 percent of biology teachers say they allow little or
no class time for evolutionary theory, a fundamental part of
modern biology. In five states, nearly one in five teachers
do not accept the scientific validity of evolutionary theory.

Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial (or just tired enough to misread
the article)...
But why aren't the "two states" and "five states" named?

I can't help but wonder that the identity of these states might be
just too shocking, e.g., some of them might actually be "progressive"
blue states...nothing at all like the "backwards" places like
Kansas, Texas, etc.
(In other words, it would be tough for the proponents of evolutionary biology
to find that the "contagion" had spread outside of flyover country.)

[mware]

Oh dear, I am a biology teacher in a middle school here in NJ.

I really don't get it? Why can't God's intelligent design just happen to be evolution.

When we discussed that section of the text, we discussed the controversy regarding intelligent design and evolution.

Until I know more about the topic I am going to hold up on attempting to teach it. I was hoping that the NJEA would have offered a seminar in it, during their conference, needless to say they didn't.

[Gil4]

"I think we need to replace capitalism with some kind of democratic socialism."

Maybe he can start by ensuring his pay is equal that of the part-time cafeteria workers.

[DoctorMichael]

"In two states, 40 percent of biology teachers say they allow little or no class time for evolutionary theory, a fundamental part of modern biology."

Its worse than I thought!

[shuckmaster]

In public schools, biology is an elective subject signed up for by students who need the credits (and education) to be accepted by a university before they can embark on their careers in science. For a public school teacher to deliberately deceive and cheat the student by replacing evolutionary biology with silly and ignorant superstitious religious myths in their classrooms is nothing less than criminal. These so called teachers should be practicing their ignorant rituals from behind bars not, out there destroying young minds and careers in a public school.