Do the intelligent citizens of Florida a favor and sign the petition urging better standards for education. More pressure!
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An update on the hearings.
Florida Citizens for Science intones You made an impression. Congratulations! The hearings seem to have gone well, and the violation of the constitutional rights by christian fundamentalists of public school children of Florida may have been averted.
From tampabay.com…
This from the National Center for Science Education:
As Florida continues to consider the draft of a new set of state science standards, there are reports about mounting creationist lobbying against the inclusion of evolution and for the inclusion of creationism. Writing in the Miami Herald (…
On Wednesday the Bay District School Board voted to sign a resolution saying it does not agree with the proposed science standards as they are currently written.
The new proposed standards adjust language for life science that would move Florida schools into modern, 21st century thinking regarding…
One of the big issues in science education is the topic of science standards: each state is supposed to have guidelines for the public school curriculum, which are intended to enforce some uniformity and also make sure that key subjects are covered. These standards are often accompanied by big…
PZ,
I'm spreading the word - I signed and some of my friends did too. We're pushing 600!
Would you believe I'm fighting with a closet creationist on the bulletin board where I made my appeal? Same tired arguments, but he's fiesty. I'm doing my best to advocate for our side, I hope I can live up to your standards.
I'm doing my best to advocate for our side, I hope I can live up to your standards.
Stating the obvious is a "standard"? Heh.
Send us a link! I'm sure some of us would like to listen / chime in.
What if you don't live in Florida?
You don't have to live in Florida. You have to specify which state you come from, but can sign even if it's not Florida.
Okay, I signed.
Thanks for the linkage, PZ!
I signed as well. Can't we come up with one of these for Texas? They need as much help, perhaps more.
No, I don't think so, you see I really like the idea of a train wreck in Florida. On the ole' Supreme Court Express no less. If you take a longer view you will see what I mean.
I live in Florida, I grew up with Florida public education, and I signed.
Overall, public ed in FL has been dismal for decades. I learned a great deal more by reading on my own than I ever did in school, and I shudder to think where I'd be now had I not ever been bitten by the reading bug.
We can't know now whether battling forces opposed to comprehensive science education will be a long uphill climb or if we'll reach a tipping point sooner than expected.
Either way, we have to keep pushing, keep persuading, keep speaking out when the topic comes up in casual conversation.
inkadu wrote:
Thanks! I put the ball back in his court, we'll see if he's rational or real IDiot. One my friends, a physician (an orthopedic surgeon, I think) has very eloquently and powerfully joined my side. Once the smoke clears I'll link it. I need the sparring practice.
Thank you for all those that have signed,we plan to present the petition to the Florida Board of Education before they
meet on the 19th of February.
We are over 700 now,lets keep it going.
Jonathan Smith:Florida Citizens for Science.
Jonathan,
Keep fighting the good fight - the petition messages have been inspiring, too! I am going to hit one more web community, which has lots of Floridians!
What if you don't live in the US?
I live in Florida and I signed the petition yesterday.
Look at what a Highlands County School Board member said recently. How do these hicks get on school boards?
"I wasn't at the meeting when all this occurred so I'm not privy to all the discussion," Wally Randall said Friday. "The controversy as I understand it was teaching evolution as a fact rather than as a theory."
Have they found the missing link? he asked. Is that why they are jumping from a theory to a fact?
"Once they find that missing link it will be OK with me if they teach it as a fact," Randall said. "But, as long as they still have missing links then it's still a theory.
http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2008/feb/03/school-board-conside…
"Evolution is a theory, not a fact!"
I swear, this creationist canard will never get old. Way to feed off the public's ignorance, IDiots. *sigh*