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Retro: Best of the Blog, Education

By gregladen on December 26, 2010.

It is very common, across the U.S., for science teachers to dread the "evolution" unit that they teach during life science class.

As they approach the day, and start to prepare the students for what is coming, they begin to hear the sarcastic remarks from the creationist students. When the day to engage the evolution unit arrives, students may show up in the classroom with handouts from anti-science sites like Answers in Genesis, to give to their friends. They may carry a bible to the lab station and read it instead of doing the work. If there is a parent conference night around that time, the teacher may be verbally abused by some of the parents for not including "alternative theories" in the classroom.

There IS a conspiracy ... Teachers under fire!

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