What the heck am I doing up at this hour?
Anyway, I hadn't thought of this angle. Corporate recruiters are going to start hearing about this from potential employees.
I'm asking myself the same question. 'Course I didn't get to bed till 2 a.m. (just got back from a TSO concert).
Oklahoma has been handicapped for generations because of the bad PR of the "dustbowl" as communicated in the book and movie "The Grapes of Wrath". I think this will damage Kansas in a similar way for quite some time to come. Who wants to move their high tech company to such a backwards place?
I may personally be faced with this soon. Our company is contemplating moving us to Kansas, and I'll have to make some decisions. For a fact, the most key member of our team is also one of the most virulent atheists I've ever seen, and has made negative comments about Kansas related to evolution. So I doubt the team will stay together through any move, and that might kill any plans to do it.
The Kansas school board has done the state more long term damage than they can even imagine. Even if the science standards are reversed before they're implemented, the damage is done.