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

Does 'astrological' have a different meaning in South Dakota or are people casting horoscopes for the future of the planet?

Rod

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Whitson
Sent: 27 February 2010 05:41
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: [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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