Arizona Could Roll Back Teaching of Evolution in Classroom
Science once more under attack in the deep red state of Arizona. This unconstitutional political grandstanding is all that you get out of GOP legislatures who are more invested in posturing and theater for fundamentalist zealots than your children’s futures.
The teaching of evolution in Arizona classrooms could be taking a big step backwards.
School Superintendent Diane Douglas is apparently behind a rewrite of science standards for all Arizona school children that would delete references to evolution.
Audio obtained by 12 News shows Douglas believes a version of creationism, called “intelligent design,” should be taught in tandem with evolution.\
The proposed science standards could leave it up to teachers to decide which one students should learn.
Amber Struthers, a science teacher at the Jones-Gordon School in Paradise Valley, compares a rollback of evolution in the classroom to not teaching students about gravity.
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