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[xmca] off-topic (dictating political ideology for public school instruction)



Although this is not on topic, some may be interested in a resolution that has actually been passed by the South Dakota legislature, that reads in part:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following: (1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact; (2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative ...

See
http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/south-dakota-climate-change/

Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK  DE  19716

twhitson@udel.edu
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