[Tax-chick]

want high school students to understand ``how genetic variation of offspring contributes to population control in an environment and that natural selection ensures that those who are best adapted to their surroundings survive.''

Wonderful. Make sure every student can parrot that sentence, and hand him his diploma. Yea for government education!

[Ichneumon]

[want high school students to understand ``how genetic variation of offspring contributes to population control in an environment and that natural selection ensures that those who are best adapted to their surroundings survive.'']

Wonderful. Make sure every student can parrot that sentence, and hand him his diploma. Yea for government education!

Read more carefully -- it specifies that they learn the *HOW* part.

Nor does it specify that that's *all* you need to learn in order to earn a diploma.

Get a grip.