re: #358 bosforus

Is the scientific method not taught in schools anymore?

What it is is taught. (helped out with lots of science projects with my kids over the last 10 years or so) But I think maybe some discussion of what it isn’t might be helpful too. I can see the point of ignoring the anti-science agenda altogether in the classroom, but it might be useful to use it as an example of how to discern real science from anti-science.

Then again, if the school opens the door for any discussion on the topic there will be some number of teachers who will go off the script and push their own personal anti-science agenda in that discussion. But then, those same teachers probably go off the script and do just that already without formal approval from the district.