as it's so called, in honor of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trials in Tennessee.

The Tn legislation allows teachers to challenge evolutoin & climate change in their classrooms.

 

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/scopes-20-tennessee-lawmakers-push-monkey-bill-on-evolution-in-schools.php

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/21/tennessee-bill-teachers-evolution-climate-change

The state legislature of Tennessee has given legal cover to public school teachers to challenge the science of evolution and climate change, in a move that looks set to deepen a debate about politicisation of the classroom.

The bill passed in the Tennessee Senate this week provides legal protection to teachers who personally do not believe in evolution or the human causes of climate change, and instead want to teach the "scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories".

It comes at a time when science associations are increasingly concerned by moves to inject religious or ideological beliefs into science teaching ahead of the release next month of a new set of education standards which give a central place to climate change.

 

Where is Clarence Darrow when you need him?

Tell me about it!

 

The bill sponsor was on CNN this morning, only his version differed from what I'm finding in print, regarding evolution & climate change.

He stressed that students could offer challenges to both theories, based on what they might be hearing at home or elsewhere. He didn't specify where elsewhere might be.

Everything I've found written on it so far stresses that teachers can challenge the validity of the science.

 

Good grief!! No wonder people think us folks in the South are heathenhillbillies.

Interesting scientific commentary on how far Tennessee has (not) come.

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/tennessee-evolution-scopes-education_n_1368636.html?ref=mostpopular

Born in Tn, grew up in Ga, lived in Al the last 30+ years. I have some experience living in the South, you might say.    :)

That is not a theory.

LOL, hang around...  Tn, or some other forward-thinking state, will soon introduce legislation allowing teachers to replace textbooks with the learning tool of their choice....  for the sake of debate, of course.  <sarcasm>

I look for Alabama & Mississippi to try to follow suit. This is an abvious attempt to inject religion into the classroom.

It couldn't be any more obvious.

Home, Church, and private school.

More & more, I feel we are moving back decades, on so many fronts.

Let's hope we'll have an Amazon woman take-over around this region..   the men seem to be devolving, not evolving.

Add another few generations, b/c we'll have to make this one up, once the GOP gets thru taking up back to the Good Ole Days!

 

Women's options are not really being taken away.  There was quite the storm when women Harvard graduates were opting out to stay at home with kids.  I think women have so many options that there is no right one.  The more affluent and educated women can make the choices.  The poor and less educated single mothers cannot.  There is the more real divide.  Where I live, there are plenty of moms working full-time and dads home with the kids.  They don't seem anymore content than the couples with the traditional set-up.  And we can't change the biology that women are the ones who carry and deliver and nurse the children.

So true.