[Virginia-American]

...could get either evolution-oriented or creation-oriented science taught to their kids...

... most high schools and jr. highs have more than one science teacher.

Do you honestly think you could find science teachers who would be willing to teach something they know to be false just in order to keep their paycheck?!

It's hard enough now to find competent science teachers. This would make it impossible.

IMO, if you want to teach CS/ID, it has to be either like KU, in comparative religion/folklore/myth class, or in rhetoric class, where its illogical and emotion-filled "arguments" could be exposed for what they're worth, and compared to politicians' promises, advertisements, quack medical appeals, etc.

All a competent science teacher could do is explain how CS and ID don't satisfy the minimal requirements for theories, and are thus pseudoscience, similar to UFOlogy, asrology, etc.

[af_vet_rr]

Do you honestly think you could find science teachers who would be willing to teach something they know to be false just in order to keep their paycheck?!

It's the only good idea I can come up with and as soon as I typed that, I realized that having parents pick whether their kids study evolution or whether they study CS is not going to work, because those parents that my solution was aimed at, are not going to back down unless evolution is totally removed from the schools.

It would not be enough for them that they can shield their children by sending them to a different science class, because they believe they know how to raise everybody else's kid.

Unfortunately, they happen to be a very vocal segment, and they happen to currently have a lot of power in the GOP right now.

I was around one of these people for Thanksgiving - I heard the "I can't believe they still teach evolution in in the schools around here, somebody should do something about that" comment twice in the same day over Thanksgiving, and she was even asking some of the children why their parents were allowing them to learn about evolution (which was way the hell out of line). People like her would turn this nation into a theocracy if given half a chance - they'd fit right in with some of the Middle Eastern nations or with the Puritans hundreds of years ago.

As I've said elsewhere - if I switch to 3rd party, I won't be leaving the GOP, because I feel they left me a long time ago.