The state’s science standards writing committee — which had its work debased by the State Board of Education — is planning to keep meeting on its own, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. Committee chairman Steve Case said he had been contacted by school districts that didn’t want to base their curricula on the state board’s flawed standards. So the committee plans to start meeting again next month to finalize and clarify its recommended standards — which, you can bet, won’t include a redefinition of science.
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Looks like a slap in the face for the religious right.
They will just turn the other cheek….NOT!
Mskes me wonder, do we really NEED a state board of education? If the districts can (and obviously will) maintain some kind of common sense, what purpose does the out of control, state level board of evangelism serve?
Hallelujah!!! Sounds like common sense will rule afterall!!
Easy there, Damoon. Remember what state you live in. We could screw up an anvil in a sandpile.
This would be the perfect opportunity to submit a constitutional amendment to abolish the board of evangelism altogether, but the Kansas Legislature is only slightly farther from perfect than I am from hunky.
If we abolished the KS BOE, where would the evangelical wing of the Republican Party (read Kansas Repbulican Assembly) test out all their good, inclusive ideas?
We would be a poorer state without the mindless attacks of Connie Morris against hispanic children. We would be a poorer state without the Steve Abrams’ censureship of pornographic text books.
Abolish the Board of Education?! What is wrong with you people?! The KS BOE is the conscience of the State of Kansas!http://www.ks-ra.org/
Would biblical literalists step away from all math and science classes? For it is written, “He also made the large bronze basin called ‘The Sea.’ It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet.” (1 Kings 7:23) And last time I checked the constant pi is somwhere near 3.14159264359.
Roo…Pretty good calculation actually, considering pi was not calculated until the days of Archimedes (287-212 BC).
Roo,The standard measure of the time was the cubit, ie. the distance from a man’s elbow to the tip of his fingers, and rather inexact, due to arms coming in various sizes. What you’re reading is somebody’s later translation into feet.Sam,While Pi wasn’t calculated until Greek times, it’s absurd to assume earlier cultures didn’t have a pretty fair notion of the relationship of diameter to circumference, it being fairly crucial to the architecture of the day.
Then, how did they build the Temple, knowing a short man’s cubit may differ to a tall man’s? I bet they have a standardized cubit, e.g., the King’s. Same thing for the unit measurement of “foot.” It wasn’t until relatively recently that it was agreed to measure 0.3048 (exact) to the metre.
Roo..You would think they would have had a standard measuring device. Take the King’s measurement for example…. one King was a man, the next an 8 year old boy… that would be a real interesting building if the King died during construction… LOL!
Then I must say, “Long live the King!”