Posted on 04/23/2009 6:46:15 PM PDT by steve-b
It's time for Don McLeroy to step down as chairman of the State Board of Education. Since he won't go willingly (and Gov. Rick Perry apparently won't remove his appointee), it is up to the Texas Senate to remove him from the chair.
Perry appointed McLeroy chairman in 2007 after the Legislature left town, so this year was the first opportunity for the Senate to exercise the body's power to ratify the appointment. McLeroy's tenure as chairman of the education board has been marked by controversies that have been a magnet for ridicule and rebuke from acclaimed scientists and researchers....
At a time when education leaders are focused on raising science standards, McLeory led efforts to weaken the instruction of evolution. University of Texas biology professor David Hillis said the result of the board's actions will be felt in classrooms: "Texas students now have a weakened science curriculum, and the science reputation of the state has been seriously injured."
With McLeroy at the helm, some board members have made international news by questioning the theory of evolution, arguing that the universe is less than 10,000 years old and writing that President Barack Obama is a terrorist sympathizer who intends to establish martial law....
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
This should be fun.
Thanks for posting!
There’s a significant effort by the nutty moonbats to tie creationists and anti-evolutionists to the Conservatives.
Perry’s stature was greatly increased by the tax party speech and rejecting stimulus dollars. Now its time the left “Palinizes” him.
Unfortunately, there is also a significant effort by creationists and anti-evolutionists to tie themselves to the conservatives.
He put someone in charge to the Board of Education who doesn’t agree with nearly every branch of science - does that sound like a rational thing to do?
Yep, there sure is.
My sister teaches in a Dallas area government school where the superintendent was running his own bank slush fund. This is just one of several recent scandals in the DFW area.
If people were serious about "raising standards" they need to get the "public" out of schools. All these layers of educrats is a breeding ground for liberals and corruption - don't they go hand in hand?
That's for sure. See the Alliance for the Separation of School & State!
True, and the YEC spam that keeps showing up on FR doesn’t help matters.
YEC spam ?
Read most anything posted by http://www.freerepublic.com/~godgunsguts/
He also believes that HIV/AIDS isn’t real.
Please note that I am not including ggg in the To: field as per his instructions.
After reading about 4-5, I now skip his posts altogether.
He has asked me to stop posting to him after I called him out for saying things like the following. He doesn’t handled those who disagree very well at all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2235704/posts?page=120#120
“I don’t see anything in that faith statement that suggests pain of death or damage to sex organs. Your offensive implication that AiG wants to kill or maim people has no place on FR.”
Not including ggg in the To: field as per his request.
A few regulars seem to post nothing but the latest Young Earth Creationism twaddle.
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