Implementing the Plan for Renewed National Purpose...

It’s like the whole country galloping head first toward a brick wall. Over and over. With the resulting repeated reduction in mental capacity. Not content with quelling dissent, the Right is also intent on devolving our ability to think. Yes, the fight in Kansas continues with elections this year, but the fight is terribly one-sided.

Will the Kansas school board be intelligently redesigned?

Over the past few years, the state school board in Kansas and science education have had a rocky relationship. Less than a decade ago, the board pulled evolution out of the science standards entirely, only to be removed from office in the following election. At least part of that history seems to have repeated itself in recent years, as a newly elected school board held a mock trial of evolution, and followed it by adopting new science standards. These new guidelines not only included specious criticisms of evolution, but redefined the entire activity of science to allow consideration of non-natural causes. This action led the National Academies of Science to issue a critique of the standards and caused Kansas to be rated as worse than a failure in a survey of science education.

One assumes Senator Richard Ryder is pretty gleeful at the direction our country is headed.