Ethics

Freshwater's Poor Teaching

By Ed Brayton

The Columbus Dispatch reports on day 5 of the Freshwater hearings. Part of that day was devoted to complaints from science teachers at the high school that students who had Freshwater in middle school had to be retaught basic science because Freshwater was really teaching creationism:

Mt. Vernon High School Principal Kathy Kasler testified that e-mails, teachers' comments and a teacher's surveys of her students showed that some 8th grade science students were being taught creationism, the religious belief that a deity created the universe.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 09, 2008 (boomark / email).