Georgia court bans biology textbook stickers

[Donkeyboy75]

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7023/full/433182a_fs.html

Since most of you probably don't have access to Nature online, here's the snip. Good news. LAter in the article it also mentions an upcoming battle against the stickers in Dover, PA.

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A court in Georgia has overturned a suburban Atlanta school policy that required a disclaimer about evolution to be placed in science textbooks.

Cobb County School District — the second largest in Georgia, with more than 100,000 students — started placing stickers in newly adopted high-school biology textbooks in the spring of 2002. The stickers read: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."

But five local parents, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, sued the school district. They claimed the stickers inhibit the teaching of evolution and promote faith-based alternative views on the origins of life, including creationism and 'intelligent design'.

On 13 January, Clarence Cooper, a judge at the district court in Atlanta, ruled that the sticker "misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community".

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1. This news is out of date

This event happened Jan 13th. There is already an appeal.
Discussed here:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1160940