As Kansas State Board of Education members and science educators did battle last year over evolution, not much was said about what it all meant for the classroom. A New York Times story about one newly retired Georgia middle school teacher, Pat New, provided some insight into the stress of trying to teach science when you’re under assault from parents, students, administrators and other teachers hostile to evolution. The award-winning teacher, who views evolution as “a unifying concept in life science,” said that parents “badgered, got loud and sarcastic, and there was no support from administrators.” New’s principal even pressed her to say she believed everything in the Bible. “What saved me was I didn’t have to argue evolution with these people,” New said. “All I had to say was, ‘I’m following state standards.’ ”
Sadly, in Kansas, it’s the state science standards that are the problem, given that they now invite the teaching of supernatural explanations such as intelligent design.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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