Middle Ages in Texas: What do you think of the teacher fired by Flintstonians?

Question

Creationist school board cans teacher for promoting lecture by author of "Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design"

http://evolvinginkansas.blogspot.com/2007/12/texas-education-agencys-firing-of-chris.html

thanks Dashes, I stand corrected

Answer 1

1st: flinstonians lol!!

2nd: is texas even part of america anymore?

3rd: the good news is that america continues to get further and further behind in education.
so maybe they can have the official theocracy these people so crave very soon and i can move to canada.

Answer 2

My question to that TEA rep is, have you ever fired someone for posting a site for an intelligent design site? Bet they haven't. I live in Texas, and I don't think the rest of the country realizes how much effect the narrow minded education people here affect the rest of the country. Publishers admit that since we buy such a large percentage of the schoolbooks, they bend to our wishes. For instance, there was a thousand page American history book a few years ago that was rejected by the schoolbook board because it had two paragraphs on prostitution in the Old West! How ridiculous can you get! But the rest of the country got the edited version, too!

Answer 3

I think it's a situation where ignorance won the first victory but will most certianly lose the war. My guess is that these creationist school board guys will wind up being sued--the school system being sued, and ultimately the teacher compensated for not only compensatory damages but punitive damages as well. And then I would suspect she will be smiling as she hands out the vaseline to the school board.

Answer 4

It's aggravating, idiotic, mean and ignorant but not that big a deal in the big picture. 99% of all schools teach real science. In perspective the creationist nut cases are a minor threat to rationality.

Answer 5

I didn't know this. I'm from Kansas and I thank my lucky stars that the citizens came together and voted the idiots on the state board of education, who wanted to get rid of evolution, out. No wonder we as a nation suck at science.

Answer 6

They had to shut her up because not only does she care about science, as opposed to religious indoctrination, she exposed their dirty little secret -- the Wedge Strategy.

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Discovery Institute's Wedge Document
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/wedge.html

Discovery Institute's "Wedge project" Circulates Online
http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/wedge.html

Christian Right Driving Wedge Into U.S.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/287207_joel02.html

Wedge Strategy of the Christian Right: Pushing Religion in the Guise of Science
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/231021.htm
Wedge Strategy - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy
Bible Classes in Public Schools: What's the Real Motivation?
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/259330.htm?nl=1

Conquering by Stealth and Deception
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm

Evangelical Christian "Cancer" in America's Air Force & Military
http://atheism.about.com/b/2007/11/15/evangelical-christian-cancer-in-americas-air-force-military.htm

Military: The Cancer From Within
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071107_the_cancer_from_within/

Gingrich's War on 'Secularism'
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/052107Parry.shtml

QUOTES AGAINST THE
SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE
(and other choice quotes from religious leaders...)
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/separation_church_state.html
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Answer 7

I hope she sues. That is stupid, and unconstitutional. Good grief people need to lighten the **** up

And by the way the Southern School system (if you could call it that) is one of the main reasons I told my husband to accept a job up North. There are some fantastic teachers here, but they get shoved into crappy spots by fundamental Christians. And then we wonder why American ranks 21 out of 30 industrial countries in math and science.

Answer 8

It's a creationist school...ya know?

What would the public schools do if I teach creation?

"ya know one thing leads to another"

"Do what ya say. Say what ya mean"


Sorry, ...started thinking of a song.

Still, I think they got a little postal.
Gypsy Priest

Answer 9

Based on what I read, she was excellent at her job, and I think it was completely a political maneuver to promote Creationism.

She also was not just a teacher, but the Director of Science.

Answer 10

It wasn't a teacher, it was the Director of Science. And she wasn't promoting it; she just sent an email out to let people know a speaker would be talking on the subject.