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Although I have only been a Kansan for a couple of years, IEven in Kansas, tests drive the curriculum!
feel some need to defend the state.
In Kansas the scholastic material selectors are gracefully
reconsidering the evolution doctrine and permitting the
selection of texts dealing with evolutionary theory, or so
I hear on NPR.
All the state board really did was set the standards for
state-wide testing of students. So "removing" evolution
meant it was removed from the state exams. Schools were
still free to buy texts which covered evolution, and were
still free to teach evolution. The only real implication
was that students who "wasted time" studying evolution had
less time to cover the "important" material (i.e. stuff on
the test.) So students' (and schools') test scores would
presumably drop relative to peers who studied the "right"
materials.
I know some instructors almost liked the policy, because it
made evolution "forbidden" and hence more intriguing to
their teenage charges.
Tim Folkerts
FHSU