Biology teachers who don't teach evolution properly
"In short, there are too many biology teachers who won't, or don't, or can't teach evolution properly," according to an editorial in the January edition of the American Biology Teacher.
Some may be glossing over the subject because of their faith. A 1999 survey of biology teachers in Oklahoma, for example, found that 12 percent wanted to omit evolution and teach creationism instead. A similar survey in Louisiana found that 29 percent of biology teachers believed creationism should be taught, while in South Dakota, it was 39 percent.
Others may fear being dragged into a battle over belief. In a 2005 survey by the National Science Teachers Association, 31 percent of respondents said they had felt pressured by students, parents, or administrators to include creationism, intelligent designor other faith-based alternatives to evolution in their curriculum. Thirty percent said they felt pressure to de-emphasize or omit evolution.
Some teachers say the numbers ring true in Florida, too.
There is a "large subset of teachers out there who flat don't teach it because they're afraid," said Campbell, the Clay County teacher, who also is a member of the committee that helped write the draft science standards.
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Wrong channel. Biology is science... evolution in terms of natural selection is science. Hence this is a science topic and I'll move it over there cuz I'm such a helpful little bunny 
Alternatively it can go in education cuz it's a curriculum isse. Probably more appropriate in education actually, but I'll try science first. If they want to move it onto the education channel then so be it.
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Look up in the sky... is it a bird... a plane... no it's another inappropriately located topic.
I believe in evolution and George Bush being the missing link.
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I believe in evolution and George Bush being the missing link.
Haha, god one 
This kind of pressure is real not just for evolution but for all sorts of curriculum subjects depending on which area the school resides.
For example there are places around my area where aspects of ecology and environmental science are toned down because they are logging townships that rely on chopping down trees for their livelihood. So to teach in these places that the cutting down of forests is somehow wrong gets the parents pretty upset and can and does lead to teachers having to leave the school.
I never knew such problem could exist. So probably it's a good thing that here in Russia teachers have no say in what the curriculum should be. 2 month of teaching evolution at school is written down, and all the teacher can do is say that she / he personally do not believe in evolution, but tell students everything about it all the same.
I would think that the percentage of teachers that don't teach evolution is ZERO% in the USA. Teachers who refuse to teach the curriculum are fired.
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Good news coming from the US then, at long last...
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my teacher teaches evolutions and he occasionally jokes that we evolved from a daffodil....Duh
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my teacher teaches evolutions and he occasionally jokes that we evolved from a daffodil....Duh
Well your teacher's pretty dumb considering we now know we actually evolved from a petunia grown in the back garden of a Mrs G. Crabtrees of East London.
Last night i saw on tv that it was from a petunia or some other flower,but no mrs crabtree..Could you have gotten her name wrong???hhahahahahjahahh...
Last night i saw on tv that it was from a petunia or some other flower,but no mrs crabtree..Could you have gotten her name wrong???hhahahahahjahahh...
so they claim that animal cells didn't evolve from animal cells anymore, but from plant cells instead??? Interesting twist to keep the fantasy going. I love the deprived creative minds of the world's scientific community. It keeps me entertained, and so do all the little people who follow them so blindly. hahaha
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Last night i saw on tv that it was from a petunia or some other flower,but no mrs crabtree..Could you have gotten her name wrong???hhahahahahjahahh...
so they claim that animal cells didn't evolve from animal cells anymore, but from plant cells instead??? Interesting twist to keep the fantasy going. I love the deprived creative minds of the world's scientific community. It keeps me entertained, and so do all the little people who follow them so blindly. hahaha
Plant cells? That's definitely a claim I have never heard a scientist make so far. Care to present some reference? What you are referring to are probably protista, photosynthetic organisms and common, elementary ancestors of all kingdoms. Which is not the same as saying that we evolved from plants.
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my impression was not that the man who said it was presenting himself not as a scientist,simply being sarcastic??
I don't know, you tell me that. There is a reason if I asked for reference.
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In most matters of science it is wise to examine sources,lest we stray beyond the tramlines..The man on television was to me clearly being sarcastic,actually thats what i thought when i read Dusty's post,but perhaps you didn't read that post...
science proved that evolution was not right...it was all fake. who must teach it? this is better to not teach it.
science proved that evolution was not right...it was all fake. who must teach it? this is better to not teach it.
Science proved that the theory of evolution by natural selection was not right? Now, I must have been sleeping. Care to tell us when and how it happened?
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And those students will one day rule the most powerful country in the world. We're all in deep shit....
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