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Running out of house to drop off lunch for child #1, pick up child #3 for doc, return child #3 to school and attend luncheon at which Lesley Stahl is speaking (did I mention that I'm still in my bathrobe?), but I heard about this on CPN this morning, but can't find anything on its site about it. You can read about how the Ohio Board of Education wants to mess up the standards here.

Please, please, please, read up, write up, talk up: kids already can debate science issues in science class. No language is needed to let them have science classes about controversial science topics. Intelligent Design is not a science and does not belong in a science class.

If you do nothing else today, please send a letter to the school board member for your region.

Ad hominem attack: The ABJ article says,

The Ohio Department of Education drafted a framework for teaching contentious issues at a board committee's request and plans to present it at a meeting Monday, department spokesman J.C. Benton said Wednesday.

The optional guidelines would help teachers target students' reasoning skills and could be applied to subjects such as global warming, immigration, the national debt and evolution, said committee member Deborah Owens Fink of Richfield.

"We want to make sure that we have curriculum that is rich and allows these conversations," Owens Fink said.

Critics said the proposal is the latest attempt by some school board members to allow religion-based criticisms of evolution into science classes.

"Teachers who want to teach creationism can use it as cover," said Patricia Princehouse, who teaches philosophy and evolutionary biology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She noted that the framework uses the term "critical analysis," which also was used in a state lesson plan that encouraged students to seek evidence for and against evolution.

This statement comes on behalf of a state school board that includes a member who read a newspaper the entire time his colleagues tried to use their reasoning skills to discuss a contentious matter, namely the wording that has in fact been pulled from the standards that referenced Intelligent Design.

Please. At least stop being hypocrites. Is that what you want our kids to learn too?