State board chief faults Blue Valley book rulings

[kweerwolf]

We knew he wasn’t a fan of Darwin, but Steve Abrams apparently doesn’t care for Toni Morrison, either.

The chairman of the Kansas Board of Education fired an indirect shot at Blue Valley school officials in a letter sent this week to newspapers statewide. In it, Abrams defended the state board’s recent adoption of science standards that cast doubt on evolution.

Abrams also wrote that it was not surprising that some local school officials objected to the standards because they were the same ones who “continue to promulgate pornography as ‘literature,’ even though many parents have petitioned the local boards to remove the porn.”

Abrams did not mention Blue Valley by name, but on Tuesday he said the district’s recent controversies were on his mind when he wrote the letter.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13177261.htm

Hmmmmm ... let's see? "Remove evil-lution' from the classroom." Check! ... "Stock up on gasoline so we can burn books." Check!

Well, that's two items checked off the Kansas Board of (Mis)Education's agenda.

[atommom]

1. I've disagreed with him on everything else, so this doesn't come as a

surprise. Still, :puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Who is this Abrams guy?

I thought Corkins was state educ commissioner. And we have a chairman of the board as well?

[Big Unit]

3. Hasn't read "Beloved"

Steve Abrams admitted to Wichita Eagle writer Randy Scholfield that he had never read "Beloved". Abrams also admitted that he hadn't known that Toni Morrison had won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Abrams is from Arkansas City, and unfortunatley, is not up for re-election next year.