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Re: [Phys-L] Read this? WY rejects new science stds.



The reason for rejecting the standards is the completely wrong one. States
are rejecting the standards because they consider evolution and human
induced climate change to be controversial, which they are not. Even
Fordham has endorsed evolution although in one account they link it with
climate change as being controversial. They are only controversial to
people who are not the scientists in those fields of study. They are
attempting to censor a message they don't like on political/religious
grounds.

WV and other coal/oil states that are rejecting the standards will just kill
good teaching and will not put in anything that improves the existing
standards. They will be preventing students from going into some of the the
most dynamic fields such as biology without increasing the number of
students in other sciences.

States that do this are NOT lucky, but rather handicaped. Censorship of
ideas degrades rather than improves education and leaves students more
ignorant.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


WV is lucky to have rejected the science standards ... for
whatever reason.