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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 12:31 PM Jan 2015

West Virginia Adjusts Science Standards, Adds Theory Of Intelligent Coal

West Virginia Adjusts Science Standards, Adds Theory Of Intelligent Coal





........apparently, some members of the board thought that the pointy-headed intellectuals who developed the standards were a bit too ideologically biased in the direction of what most scientists agree on and that it wouldn’t hurt to nudge the standards just a bit in the direction of pseudoscience, which would be OK because it still has “science” in it. West Virginia is the second state we know of to back away from the Next Generation standards out of concern for the poor oppressed coal industry; the other, Wyoming, dropped the standards altogether rather than pretending they’d adopted them.

The changes were made without any input from the West Virginia Science Teachers Association, which had been involved in the earlier stages of adopting the science standards, but was not consulted about the final, last-minute changes.






Read more at http://wonkette.com/572186/west-virginia-adjusts-science-standards-adds-theory-of-intelligent-coal#7WvgcsZ3gO8Qpxmg.99

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West Virginia Adjusts Science Standards, Adds Theory Of Intelligent Coal (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP
I thought this was a joke until I read the link. DeadLetterOffice Jan 2015 #1
PLEASE tell me that this is really from the Onion. my head hurts! niyad Jan 2015 #2
I now understand the urge/meme to REALLY bang one's head. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2015 #3

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. I now understand the urge/meme to REALLY bang one's head.
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 06:25 PM
Jan 2015

And to think, legally these guys can BREED.

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