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A Russellville School District teacher has been reminded of his obligation to refrain from proselytizing to students.
A district parent reported that a sixth-grade science teacher at Russellville Middle School has made several claims to his class that are based on his personal religious beliefs, not scientific fact. The complainant reported that this teacher told students that dinosaurs lived only a few thousand years ago, and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
He also reportedly told students that Earth is only a few thousand years old and that it cannot be as old as the atheist scientists claim that it is.
FFRF Attorney Chris Line wrote to Superintendent Mark Gotcher urging the district to take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action regarding this unconstitutional conduct. Gotcher responded via phone and assured FFRF that he has spoken with the teacher and this should not be an issue again.
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trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)Oh yeah Liberty University
Mariana
(14,858 posts)They learn the material, perform the labs, and pass the tests. They just don't believe it.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Evangelicals going into teaching science in order to contradict science is very much part of a plan. Going to a religious school, then infiltrating teaching in public school is a way of destroying science, and public schools in general.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)then go out to preach their propaganda.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)teachers, pharmacists etc. taking jobs and suing as activism.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)that the South won the Civil War. I'm not surprised to find this BS continuing at all.
When I taught 6th Grade in CA a parent reported me to the principal who asked me if I was teaching religion in my class. I was speechless since I am an Atheist. I showed him the textbook which had Yin/Yang in the curriculum in the Ancient Cultures teachers edition for S Studies. I taught the same thing to the complaining parent's other child the previous year and no complaints. After that I had to allow her child to skip any discussions or questions that were even remotely related to anything cultural that went against her own beliefs (she was into New Age Christian whatever).
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)religion doesn't know anything.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)What the actual fuck, Arkansas?