Evolution’s New Foe: Timid School Administrators

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By Brandon Keim April 23, 2010 | 9:49 am | Categories: Biology


Evolution education is under attack in Weston, Connecticut, but not from the usual direction.

Nobody is promoting intelligent design in the curriculum, or asking schools to teach evolution’s “strengths and weaknesses.” There’s just an administration afraid that teaching third graders too much about Charles Darwin will cause trouble.

“They might have just been looking to avoid controversy, but that has the same effect,” said Steve Newton, programs and policy director at the National Center for Science Education. ” If you’re not looking to teach children the best science, that harms their education.”

At issue is a class section proposed in 2008 by Mark Tangarone, teacher of the third, fourth and fifth grade Talented and Gifted program at the Weston Intermediate School. Tangarone wanted his third graders to study and compare the accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.



http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/evolution-controversy/#more-20822

The truth is controversial, but fantasy is not. What a world.

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1. Administrators are not generally known for their courage or forward thinking.

Those that are known for that also have the word "former" attached to their administrator titles. Sad, but true...