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Kentucky Commissioner of Education: Evolution a fact? Not in MY schools.

Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
"Hart County's school superintendent is arguing that a new test that Kentucky high school students will take for the first time next spring will treat evolution as fact, not theory, and will require schools to teach that way.

Superintendent Ricky D. Line raised the issue in recent letters and email messages to state Education Commissioner Terry Holliday and Kentucky Board of Education members. Line wants them to reconsider the "Blueprint" for Kentucky's new end-of-course test in biology.

"I have a deep concern about the increased emphasis on the evolution content required," Line wrote. "After carefully reviewing the Blueprint, I find the increase is substantial and alarming."

Line contends that the Blueprint essentially would "require students to believe that humans ... evolved from primates such as apes and ... were not created by God."

"I have a very difficult time believing that we have come to a point ... that we are teaching evolution ... as a factual occurrence, while totally omitting the creation story by a God who is bigger than all of us," he wrote. "My feeling is if the Commonwealth's site-based councils, school board members, superintendents and parents were questioned ... one would find this teaching contradictory to the majority's belief systems."

Holliday insisted Monday that Kentucky will not be teaching evolution as fact. Currently, teachers can discuss theories of creation other than evolution but they are not required to teach them."

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Ah yes, Kentucky. Home of fried chicken and parboiled minds.
 
Jainarayan

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
Dear Superintendent Line:

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor the free exercise thereof" - US Constitution, Amendment I

Sincerely,

US Citizen.
 
Photonic

Photonic

Ad astra!
My thousands exactly, how did this man become superintendent?

No, I seriously want to know. That is a SERIOUS issue.

Seriously.
 
Viker

Viker

Häxan
Terry Holiday is the current Kentucky Commissioner of Education, not Ricky Line. Ricky Line is just the superintendent of Hart County Schools. Dr. Holiday has gone on record as opposing Mr. Line's position that evolution is nothing more than a "belief" or "hunch".

Commissioner of Education

BTW, not everyone in and from Kentucky thinks like Mr. Line.
 
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Viker

Viker

Häxan
dyanaprajna2011 said:
And they wonder why our schools are failing.
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Fiscal irresponsibility and partisan politics are killing our kids brains. No priorities. Many adults just want a warehouse to store kids temporarily. Some adults want our schools to be extensions of Sunday School ( not horrible but irrelevant to an academic education ) or just turn them into partisan indoctrination centers.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Kilgore Trout said:
How do so many uneducated people end up working in the education system?
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The purpose of "public education" is not to educate, but to ensure that the poor will have just enough education to work in factories, be cannon fodder in war, and never rebel against the current government/economic structures that make other people rich.

"Public Education" is run by slaves to produce rowing slaves that don't rock the boat.

And if they do, we can just kill them.
 
Reverend Rick

Reverend Rick

Frubal Whore
Premium Member
So does the people of a state have the right to elect officials that represent their convictions?

In other words, can Kentuckians choose to be willfully ignorant?

This is a states right issue. I will admit that we could be forced to comply by pulling our federal funding, but the lion's share of funding come from property taxes and these folks should have a say in how their taxes are employed.

To not do so is taxation without representation.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Reverend Rick said:
So does the people of a state have the right to elect officials that represent their convictions?

In other words, can Kentuckians choose to be willfully ignorant?

This is a states right issue. I will admit that we could be forced to comply by pulling our federal funding, but the lion's share of funding come from property taxes and these folks should have a say in how their taxes are employed.

To not do so is taxation without representation.
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That only matters if you're rich.
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
Viker said:
Terry Holiday is the current Kentucky Commissioner of Education, not Ricky Line. Ricky Line is just the superintendent of Hart County Schools. Dr. Holiday has gone on record as opposing Mr. Line's position that evolution is nothing more than a "belief" or "hunch".

Commissioner of Education

BTW, not everyone in and from Kentucky thinks like Mr. Line.
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If your link was provided to corroborate, "Dr. Holiday has gone on record as opposing Mr. Line's position that evolution is nothing more than a "belief" or "hunch"." it doesn't. Perhaps you posted the wrong one?
 
RedOne77

RedOne77

Active Member
Skwim said:
"Hart County's school superintendent is arguing that a new test that Kentucky high school students will take for the first time next spring will treat evolution as fact, not theory, and will require schools to teach that way.​
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Why can't any of them get it right? Evolution is both a fact and a theory and should be taught as such. You'd think that teaching them what a scientific theory is would be a basic foundation in all high school science classes.
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Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
RedOne77 said:
Why can't any of them get it right? Evolution is both a fact and a theory and should be taught as such. You'd think that teaching them what a scientific theory is would be a basic foundation in all high school science classes.
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Yeah, Just because you're educated doesn't mean you're smart.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Reverend Rick said:
Being rich is a matter of opinion. Many people look at me like I am rich. I think I am middle class. To me rich is when you don't have to work and can fly around in your own jet. :p
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So is everything else.

If you were educated to contribute to society, chances are you are rich or someone wealthy had you educated.

If you were educated to be slaughtered or work so the rich could keep their wealth and get richer, chances are you aren't rich.

I suspect that like me, you were part of the latter and you fought tooth and nail to reach some form of financial liberty. You are rewarded because you played the system and made a lot of folks rich.
 
FlyingTeaPot

FlyingTeaPot

Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
lolwut? the earth is the centre of the universe. It makes me sad that people like Copernicus are teaching our young innocent children these alternate theories as fact. As fact, I tell you! -- Catholic Church (circa 1600 AD)
 
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