05-07-2023, 02:03 AM
Tiangou wrote:
[quote=Acer]
https://thehill.com/homenews/3988167-uta...urriculum/
Utah State Board of Education considers removing ‘climate change’ from curriculum
When the Utah State Board of Education meets on Thursday, May 4, they will have a controversial topic to discuss – whether the term “climate change” is too politically charged to be taught to students.
The discussion would affect core standards for elective high school courses, specifically for a meteorology course. According to the board, they want to avoid language they feel may be politically charged.
Party of Small Government, ladies and gentlemen, protecting the populace from dangerous ideas.
Several states and myriad districts throughout the country now follow the Kansas model, requiring textbooks to replace the word "evolution" with "change over time."
While I find it dangerous in principle that such a fundamental aspect of biology needs to be quelled for the politics inserted by the right, it doesn't directly affect our day to day lives. But, slippery slope again, when you convince a voting block that the scientists have an agenda about origin stories, it's a small step to get that voting block to doubt science's intentions about vaccines and global climate change.