I've been thinking about doing this for awhile....
so back in April + May the Kansas School Board, despite being told by our KS supreme court that they needed to take care of a new school budget as soon as possible (which they still haven't finished taking care of) decided to hold a hearing on Intelligent Design to help them make up their minds about adding it to the school's science curriculum. Being KS, our school board, like 80% of our local government is controlled by the Republican party- it's KS, that's just how it is. So we all know they're gonna add ID to the curriculum anyways b/c some of the members have admitted that they don't care how the hearings go, they've already made up their minds. Besides, last time republicans controlled the board they banned the teaching of Macro-evolution in the school district (some of you may have heard of this) well, it is now again allowed to be taught, but now they want to add ID in there too.
anyways, scientists boycotted the hearings and only ID people really showed up, which is a pretty big movement here in KS, what w/ our Kansas Intelligent Design and its leader John Calvert. One man did show up to argue in favor of science and point out that scientists worldwide largely accept it, but he was merely a local civil rights attorney.
Here's a little tidbit that every news source out here picked up on about one of the board members:A further embarrassment came when, after a witness admitted that he had not read the full draft standards, board member Kathy Martin consoled him by saying, according to the Wichita Eagle, "Please don't feel bad that you haven't read the whole thing because I haven't read it myself."
http://www.cascience.org/kansasncse.html
so what I'm getting at is that soon our highschoolers and middleschoolers will be learning the tenets of Intelligent Design-frankly little more than a dressed up Creationism w/ a few new words, such as Intelligent being or Creater rather than God.
(Kansas can be fucking nuts sometimes, but so help me I still love her)
So what do you think about Intelligent Design? Evolution? Should these stupid kids be taught both? why not leave them ill prepared for when they finally leave this state, as most kids are desperate to do.