Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Grounds for immediate dismissal

From NewScientist.com (via Metafilter): "Despite a court-ordered ban on the teaching of creationism in US schools, about one in eight high-school biology teachers still teach it as valid science, a survey reveals. And, although almost all teachers also taught evolution, those with less training in science – and especially evolutionary biology – tend to devote less class time to Darwinian principles." (continue reading)

This is no surprise, of course, but shouldn't teaching religion in a science classroom be grounds for firing, or at least a declaration of incompetence?