Monday, October 27, 2008

Texas Education Jumps the Shark

The Texas Board of Education has a six-member panel in charge of choosing textbooks.

You know where this is going ...

... wait for it ...

... three of them, including the chairman, are now creationists.

Local Dallas coverage here. A response from sane Texans here.

The title of this article from the Houston Chronicle is a triumph of understatement, "Board's actions could put students at a disadvantage." Could?

The chairman also believes in abstinance-only sex education.

I don't live there any more, so I don't care as much as I used to. But, damn, they're giving Kansas a run for the money on being the U.S. poster child on scientific ignorance.

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