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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I found this editorial called "State Board of education poised to embarras Texas again" in the Austinamericanstatesman.com. The article talks about the board to end its efforts to force religious doctrine into public schools, and the votes being taken to have a a more extended science curriculum and an extension in the books students use. The debate is being cause, because the State board wants to require students to be taught strengths and weaknesses of scientific theories as early as middle school. 95 percent of college science and biolgy teachers oppose to this, because they believe the "strenghts and weaknesses" clause is only going to confuse students by inserting a religious doctrine into teh study of science. i realy dont think this is a good idea, becuase it is already complicated enough when a student is in middle school to deal with algebra and those harder classes, and on top of that having extra sciene being teached. i believe the evolution and advanced science should be taught at higher levels, like high school and college, to learn more visit http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/11/22/1122sboe_edit.html
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After reading my classmate’s, Jose Ramos, blog about religion trying to creep into the public classroom, I find myself disagreeing with Mr. Ramos. In his posting, Jose talks about the efforts the Texas School Board has been taking to insert religious doctrines into middle school science classes. A proposed "strength and weakness" clause that would promote theories about intelligent design as opposed to evolution is the Boards' main focus. Mr. Ramos disagrees with introducing these ideas so early and prefers they be taught at a higher level of schooling such as high school or college. I on the other hand, would like to see these theories implemented at a younger age. If we only teach our children one theory or the other, it contradicts the idea of choice and variety. True, a middle school student probably will not fully comprehend the subject in it's entirety, but the fact that they are both presented would help them later understand that they are only theories, and deciding in which you believe in is a personal choice. I thought Mr. Ramos made a sound argument about his preference, but I’m going to have to go the other way on this one. Apart from a few grammatical errors, I thought it was a well written blog about a well known touchy subject.
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