The state of Wyoming has garnered the distinction of turning down the teaching of the new national science standards because they ask teachers to teach the truth about climate change.
I though this would be in Kansas, which battled against the teaching of evolution for years (and still probably does in curriculum skirmishes on their school boards around the state).
But no, it's Wyoming. Here's an excerpt from the article.
A group of Wyoming educators last year urged state officials to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards, but, the Casper Star-Tribune reported, Gov. Matt Mead, a Republican who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by human activity [what a surprise], recently approved a last-minute footnote to the budget introduced by legislators including Republican Rep. Matt Teeters, who was quoted as saying:“[The standards] handle global warming as settled science. There’s all kind of social implications involved in that that I don’t think would be good for Wyoming.”Kansas is most likely to be next to do this; if not them, Texas.
Ugh. I thought teaching science was about teaching facts. Climate change, due to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is a fact.
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