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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:19 PM Apr 2012

Tennessee Law Will Allow Teachers to Challenge Climate Science

Source: Scientific American

Tennessee soon will have a law granting public school teachers the right to challenge climate science in their classrooms.

Gov. Bill Haslam (R) of Tennessee declined to act on a measure yesterday that would formally allow teachers to challenge "the teaching of some scientific subjects," including global warming, evolution and human cloning. Without the governor's signature, the bill becomes law by default later this month.

"The bill received strong bipartisan support, passing the House and Senate by a three-to-one margin, but good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion," Haslam said in a statement. "My concern is that this bill has not met this objective."

Haslam said he thought that the bill would not change the already-established curriculum in the state's public schools.

Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tennessee-law-will-allow-teachers-to-challenge-climate-science

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southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
1. What a fool. That means a teacher WILL have a student bring it up so they can talk about it.
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:23 PM
Apr 2012

Better yet teachers that have their own belief will bring it up anyway. Way to go Tn we are now going back being made fools of.

no_hypocrisy

(46,182 posts)
3. Wait til these kids take their science standardized tests (including SATs) and
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:28 PM
Apr 2012

the questions are all evolution-oriented. And not a single question on Adam and Eve.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
4. So when our students don't know science the state house will then
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:58 PM
Apr 2012

use that as a reason to fire all the teachers and defund the schools altogether...

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
5. Tennessee Law Will Allow Teachers to Challenge Climate Science
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 03:06 PM
Apr 2012

But it will not allow the process of Climate Change and its consequences to stop happening.

What will students think of their education if they hear one thing in class, and can see the opposite happening by merely looking out the classroom window?



What if the school's not air conditioned!!!!

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
6. The scientific method
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 03:22 PM
Apr 2012

permeates our entire system of education. So, is this the DELIBERATE dumbing down of our youth, rendering them most likely to become factory fodder or service industry drones?

I find it sad that so many of these dysfunctional adults are convinced that our children are too indoctrinated to oppose these initiatives. I remain hopeful that #Occupy will prove them wrong.

Crunchy Frog

(26,630 posts)
12. Why just some scientific subjects? Why not all of them?
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 07:57 PM
Apr 2012

Isn't there some religious discrimination in that law?

And when did human cloning become a scientific subject?

Does anyone really think this country is going to remain a superpower?

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