Sisters High School biology teacher fired [Nazi/Planned Parenthood Powerpoint Made Public]

http://www.bendweekly.com/ ^ | Mar 23,2007 | Alisha Wilson

[Diago]

Sisters High School biology teacher fired amid controversial curriculum

Mar 23,2007 00:00 by Alisha Wilson

Board member releases teacher’s powerpoint presentation; says it was a “calculated decision on his part to bend young minds”

Kris Helphinstine, a part-time biology teacher at Sisters High School was fired by the school board Monday night for deviating from the curriculum on the theory of evolution after only eight days on the job, four of which were spent teaching his own theories of evolution through a PowerPoint presentation that referenced Nazi Germany and Planned Parenthood.

When asked why Helphinstine was dismissed, school board chairman Mike Gould said, “He lacked judgment in departing from the district science curriculum in a very controversial subject area and this departure occurred without any consultation or without an appropriate supervisor. This is a sensitive area. When teachers teach in certain areas, they have to teach it straight down the line.”

 

Helphinstine’s curriculum included two controversial powerpoint presentations. View the presentations "Eugenics" and "Human" - links are provided below.

Helphinstine’s PowerPoint presentation displayed the following quote from a leading British evolutionist who is commonly referenced by Creationists. “The theory of evolution (is) a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” (D.M.S. Watson, “Adaptation,” Nature, Vol. 123 [sic Vol. 124] (1929), p. 233).

“He taught that evolution doesn’t exist,” said seven-year board member Glen Lasken. “Of course we want our students to think, but this went beyond that. He spent four days dismantling the theory of evolution for these kids. He was terminated for a gross error in judgment, without checking with the superintendent or principal. This was an extreme error in judgment.”

In a phone interview, 27-year old Helphinstine said that his whole purpose was to promote critical thinking. “Eugenics, the self directed evolution of mankind is an interesting subject. Every teacher brings in supplemental material. What is standard curriculum?” asked Helphinstine who has a master’s degree in science from Oregon State University.

The PowerPoint presentation included photos of dead bodies taken during the Holocaust and referenced a 1941 article printed in The Journal of American Psychiatric Association calling for the killing of mentally retarded children, referred to as “natures mistakes”.

“He was trying to make the point that not only is evolution wrong; he suggested that evolution is used for bad purposes. Evolution was used as an experimental basis in Nazi Germany. He said the founding fathers of Planned Parenthood are Nazis. His PowerPoint presentation of the Holocaust is pretty revolting stuff. What is most discouraging is that he says he was trying to encourage critical thinking. This was a calculated decision on his part to bend young minds,” says Lasken.

Board members met with Helphinstine in private for approximately 90 minutes before a public meeting on the matter, though the teacher did not stay for the public forum.

“Mr. Helphinstine was dismissed for failing to teach science in a freshman biology class. He didn’t expressly teach Creationism but provided significant messages from advocacy groups in his presentation. The materials he submitted were not age appropriate,” said board member Jeff Smith.

>View Helpinstine's powerpoint presentation named 'Eugenics'

>View the presentation named 'Human'

(Both links will open in a new browser window.)

[Fabozz]

"...so trashing the president and claiming that the US is a state that spreads racism and violence is covered under 'free speech'..."

No, that stuff is actually under "required curriculum."

[txroadkill]

You believe this belongs in a high school biology class?

Absolutely. Are we suppose to ignore history or pretend it didn't happen because it's ugly??? High school is absolutely the right time to teach it when you consider that in the latest census the data shows that only 1 in 4 Americans have a BA. The biggest complaint we have about the left is how ill informed they are.

If by asking that question you mean to say that you don't believe that it should, I don't even know where to begin with that comment. What part do you object to? The pictures? How else are we to educate each and every person alive how horrible the Holocaust was? Are we to just say it was bad and then leave it alone?

Joseph Goebbels said getting people to carry out the executions of women and children was easy, all that was needed was to take one step at a time and man could be made to believe and do anything. He said they could have never got a soldier to step forward and kill a harmless child, but if you told him to brake a window he would do it, then if you told him to brake two windows he would do it, then if you told him to brake all the windows and then set the house on fire and then 2 houses and then 3 he would do each task because the next wasn't much worse than the last.

So which direction do you want our children to walk? If we don't show them the pictures, what is next? Not telling them it happened? How many steps away will we be when it happens again?

If it's not the pictures, but the subject, why should we not present all sides to students? You don't have to believe in God to be a moralist. The moral question must be presented to people who could be faced with this decision sometime in their life, they shouldn't walk into any situation blind to all the possibilities. Would you let someone walk out into the street after telling them that if there are no cars coming from the right they will be safe but not warn them that there may be cars coming from the left too?

The left claims that people should be free to make their own choices, but if the choices aren't all presented then there really is no freedom of choice. They teach Darwin's theory without teaching about Darwin, people should know that the man whose theory challenges the existence of God cursed God and blamed him for the death of his daughter. The fact that Darwin was biased is important to know and because of that fact his conclusions should be challenged. But schools don't teach that, they present Darwin's theory as fact.

[BykrBayb]

Eugenics ping.

Teacher fired for telling high school students the truth about eugenics. These are facts that the radical left tries (usually with great success) to keep hidden.

[dr_lew]

He is right, what is different between Hitler killing off all the mentally ill and aborting babies that may have Down's syndrome? And that's without even challenging Darwin's theory.

Ummm, yeah! It's without even challenging Newton, or Einstein as well. Dude, put down your hash pipe. Take a blow.

[preacher]

**Bend & Sisters are in Oregon**

"Your are so right. We do have some conservatives here."

The reason I posted that was that some items get posted which don't include locations.

Yes, I know that both Oregon & Washington have large numbers of conservatives.

Several years ago there was a tax measure on the ballot in WA. The measure failed in every county except King (Seattle). The measure passed statewide because of the heavy King vote.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Not necessarily--it definitely wasn't supportive of Nazism.

[txroadkill]

Tell me, what does Newton or Einstein have to do with with killing off the unfit? Did you read the article and go through the powerpoint, or are you just jumping on me because you're pro-abortion or believe in evolution.

Can you even at least present an argument or are you only skilled at making insults and accusations of drug use?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"Are [people] suppose to ignore history or pretend it didn't happen because it's ugly???"

Big BUMP to that.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"Dude, put down your hash pipe. Take a blow."

Enough with the petty smoking insults.

The guy was apparently fired (at least in part) because he held anti-Macroevolutionary views--and showed them. txroadkill simply showed how some of what was presented didn't directly challenge Macroevolution.

[dr_lew]

But you said it yourself, "that's without even challenging Darwin's theory." Logically, this places Darwin's theory in the same category as any number of propositions, insofar as it remains unchallenged by the imputations which you ascribe to the powerpoint.

So it seems I am the one waiting for an argument that DOES challenge Darwin's theory.

BTW, the hash pipe I refer to is metaphorical.

[Oztrich Boy]

The guy was apparently fired (at least in part) because she tried to teach history/sociology (and non-curriculum history/sociology at that) in a biology class - in her first week on the job.

[dr_lew]

The guy was apparently fired (at least in part) because he held anti-Macroevolutionary views--and showed them.

But isn't eugenics microevolutionary? I believe the distinction is made only for the purpose of admitting that "microevolution" does take place. Then if eugenicists want to practice artificial microevolution, how is this it that this is an outrage against anti-Macroevolutionary views?

[Elyse]

The materials he submitted were not age appropriate,” said board member Jeff Smith.

I've been through the presentations and I don't understand how any of this was inappropriate for high school freshman.

[Quick or Dead]

I agree with teaching the full history of evolutionary biology and its connection piece, but that slideshow what pretty blatant piece of propaganda, especially sticking Darwin's mug next to a swastika and juxtaposing from Francis Galton to the Nazis. Ultimately, his idea was right on. His execution left a great deal to be desired.

Word to the not so wise. When in hostile territory, like academia, don't start sending up flares.

[endthematrix]

High schoolers giggled at Schindler's List.

[Stingray]

Teaching the truth about Darwinism, eugenics, and the Nazi connection is NOT politcially correct, and offends the religious zealots in the evol camp who like to think they are smarter, better and "more evolved" than everyone else.

I was posting on these issues here years ago, and the howls of outrage that emanated from evolution's
"true believers" were matched only by those who believe in man-made caused global warming, another generation's descent into "junk science madness."

I will repost some of this material and watch the howls of protest come from the evolutionary left here.

[JudgemAll]

Necrophilia sure belongs in a biology class, because this involves judging genes a posteriory, but so conveniently after they've been destroyed, in typical progressist/Nazi manner.

[Stingray]

"In the early history of the race, so-called "natural law" reigned undisturbed. Under its pitiless and unsympathetic iron rule, only the strongest, most courageous could live and become progenitors of the race. The weak died early or were killed. Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness and other lofty and worthy sentiments, which interfere with the law of natural selection. We are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates."
Margaret Sanger

"They [secular humanists] have reduced Man to even less than his natural finiteness by seeing him only as a complex arrangement of molecules, made complex by blind chance. Instead of seeing him as something great who is significant even in his sinning, they see Man in his essence only as an intrinsically competitive animal, that has no other basic operating principle than natural selection brought about by the strongest, the fittest, ending on top. And they see Man as acting in this way both individually and collectively as society."
Francis Schaeffer

Evolution provides a rational, scientific basis for genocide that makes effette intellectuals feel better about themselves after a hard day's barbarity. Picture Ghengis Khan in a white lab coat and horn-rimmed glasses.

People who defend evolution are ultimately defending the likes of Margaret Sanger and Peter Singer. After all, it's much easier for some of our evolutionist friends here to provide intellectual affirmation to butchers than it is to do the dirty work themselves.

6 Posted on 04/02/2000 20:53:45 PDT by Stingray

[Stingray]

More quotes that link Darwinist thought to Nazi execution (in Hitler's and Sanger's own words, no less) in a later post.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I've been through the presentations and I don't understand how any of this was inappropriate for high school freshman.

At that age they're supposed to be putting condoms on bananas.