Tag: Mississippi
Promoting a Suicide: Shame on Politico
Throughout the story, big-time political consultant Hal Malchow’s planned suicide is depicted as empowering.
West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”
West Virginia joins Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana, and Mississippi to become the sixth state to adopt some form of an academic freedom policy.
What’s Really Happening in Mississippi?
According to a recent news article, in Mississippi, a “New Law Allows for Creationism in the Classroom“. While this sounds like a believable headline, let’s find out if the facts bear it out. According to the article, this is what the law actually says: “No local school board, school superintendent or school principal shall prohibit a public school classroom teacher from discussing and answering questions from individual students on the origin of life.” (“New Law Allows for Creationism in the Classroom“) Hmmm… All I see is a law that permits students to ask any question they want and allows teacher to answer that question. There’s nothing about creationism. There’s not even anything about intelligent design. For all we know, if Read More ›