The key of the judgment is ID is not scientific therefore keep it out of science classes. Lacking specific legislation to inform it, what standing does the law have to define science? The same standing that it has to define school curriculum: none. The school board was within its rights; the judge was not.
Fascists and statists both left and right like to use the courts to create law rather than interpret it. Don't like ID? Pass a law against it. That's what the legislature is for.
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Lacking specific legislation to inform it, what standing does the law have to define science? The same standing that it has to define school curriculum: none. The school board was within its rights; the judge was not."
A school board is not above the law. No school board can decide whether it's legal to punish students with a cane or not. Sometimes you need a judge to stop nonsense taught like rain is teardrops of angels.
A school curriculum is limited to some topics. You can't teach quantum electrodynamics at school level.
Students won't even read that correct.
ID is at the moment only a philosophy without some scientific merits. You can't put every new or old idea in a school science curriculum. You can't teach every controversy at school especially there is non in the scientific world.