Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  cassandra2 writes:
Rightwingers have so little understanding of basic principles of
objectivity. A teacher's task is to teach kids relevant truth.
It is not the teacher's fault if truth favors one political
perspective over another.  Yes, climate change is real and an
urgent problem. That's not the teacher's fault. The teacher has
a duty not to tip toe around the manufactured doubt funded by
Exxon (less so now) and the Koch Brothers or their many
institutes and think tanks i..e propaganda mills. Not the
Heritage Foundation, not the Cato Institute nor Fox News and
others. As this newspaper does and many of the other respectable
media as well.  Intelligent design does not hold up no matter
how many logic tortured claims are made for it. We are the
product of accident by the evidence. If the evidence were
different, the answer would be. And all the requirements to
include it in curricula doesn't change that. You can't legislate
reality.  Tax cuts for the rich do not s