Saturday, February 10, 2007

"An Inconvenient Truth" restricted in Washington schools

For schools in Federal Way, Washington, "An Inconvenient Truth" has been restricted in the classroom. For a school teacher to show the movie they must first get approval from the Superintendent and must also show an opposing viewpoint.
This came about after parents who are also proponents of Creationism and do not want condoms in schools complained to school board members that "Condoms don't belong in school and neither does Al Gore."
Board member Dave Larson said, "We have to ensure that our school are not being used to politically indoctrinate anyone."

I would personally love to see what opposing scientific evidence they can come up with to teach the "opposing view" that does not involve politics. I believe there are still a handful of people who aren't convinced the Earth is not the center of the Universe. Perhaps we should require teaching the opposing view of that as well.

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