06/12/05

Three recent dispatches from the education battlefront: * Kansans debating how the development of life on earth should be taught in public schools -- as the unintended result of random evolution or the complex product of an evolution shaped by intelligent design. ... * In Massachusetts, a father named David Parker in a war with his local school board when he objected to a kindergarten 'diversity' curriculum that depicted gay and lesbian couples raising children. ... * Luke Whitson, a 10-year-old [elementary schoolboy] in Knoxville, TN, liked reading the Bible with his friends during recess. But when a parent complained, the public school's principal 'demanded that they ... put their Bibles away, and ... cease bringing their Bibles to school.' ... Once there was a solid consensus about how public schools should be run. ... But as these battles and countless others make clear, that day is past...

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from Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp