[metmom]

I sure remember going over alchemy, humors, flat earth, and the geocentric nature of the universe when I was in school. No, they didn't teach is AS science but that's where I heard it. They had time to *teach the controversy*, explain to us why those concepts weren't valid, and still teach us everything we needed to know.

My son had Bio this year and his teacher said he'd rather not even teach evo at all because it's such a hot button issue but that he had to. They spent all of two or three days on it and opened up the discussion to *other* ideas of where life came from.

Then he told them that he was going to teach them what answers they needed to put down on the test in order to be considered *correct*, so they would get it marked right. He didn't care what they really thought and told them not to put down what made sense to them, just put down the answers that they needed to to pass. (So much for teaching kids to think for themselves.)

Public school, BTW.

[RadioAstronomer]

I sure remember going over alchemy, humors, flat earth, and the geocentric nature of the universe when I was in school. No, they didn't teach is AS science but that's where I heard it. They had time to *teach the controversy*, explain to us why those concepts weren't valid, and still teach us everything we needed to know.

As a history lesson in what NOT to believe. There was no "*teach the controversy* involved.

Then he told them that he was going to teach them what answers they needed to put down on the test in order to be considered *correct*, so they would get it marked right. He didn't care what they really thought and told them not to put down what made sense to them, just put down the answers that they needed to to pass. (So much for teaching kids to think for themselves.)

There is a teacher who should be fired!

He has no business teaching biology. Period!