Texas has a disturbing history of allowing religion to encroach on education (for example, here, here and here). Over the next two days the school board is meeting, and one of the topics is selecting instructional materials for science classrooms.
I wonder if they're going to select science materials that include, well, science; or if they're going to select materials that include religious flim-flammery such as creationism.
Don't get me wrong. If parents want their children to believe that heredity works by conceiving children in front of speckled rods produces speckled offspring (as taught in Genesis 30), or to deny evolution in favor of "God did it" hand-waving, they're absolutely free to take them to church and teach them such nonsense. But it doesn't belong in public schools, and it shouldn't be funded with public, taxpayer money.
[Via Americans United for Separation of Church and State].
I completely agree!!
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