Thanks for the clarification. That's what I find so scary - we need more and more science & technology education, and our education leadership is delivering less and less.

>It was not banned, but removen from the state curriculum requirements. This just means that it is left up to the individual schools/teachers ohw much (if any) evolution they want to teach. Nonetheless ridiculous. When I first heard this on the news, I though it might be a joke. WHen I realized that there really were people that stupid running things in some parts of the country, I nearly wept. Well, ok, I didn't cry, but I was pretty sad.
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>>From what I heard, the Kansas State School Board banned the teaching of evolution in public schools. Specifically, "micro-evolution" can still be taught... that is, Darwin's finches, etc. but the big picture (e.g. that mankind evolved from apes) is specifically forbidden.
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>>Apparently the KS legislature is so upset they're looking into ways to modify the state constitution (!) to dissolve the school board.
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>>>That's why I was asking. I was kind of paying attention when they talked about it on t.v. I'm not sure of the details at all.
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>>>Pf
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>>>>Wasn't that Kansas, the state, rather than K.C.? IAC, IMO the scariest story of the week... more so than the shooter in L.A.