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To: w molloy who wrote (553)	9/15/1999 7:49:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

w molloy Re: What is suitable for teaching High School kids? Good question. We are F I N A L L Y getting to the Kansas School Board issue!!!! After 24 hours and umpteen posts!!! No wonder the stock market is not going anywhere!!!!!!!!!!!! OK. Let us be very simple. The issue here simply is: Did we come from a mud-hole randomly, by sheer luck, everything fell in it's place, wihtout outside design or intevention, or were we created, somehow, by an omniscient creator? The two issues are simple. I think that you can gather any number of qualified educators, from both sides of the issue to develop a teaching curriculum, that could begin in the middle school; one in the science dept and the other in the social studies dept under the sug chapter of philosophy. I know for a fact that 7 th graders in Italy's Classical Lyceum ( ~30% of kids )for example are taught philosophystarting in grade 7. The principal of my children's public school has a Master's in philosophy and once told me that there are philosophy books in in the USA geared for 5th graders!!! So yes. A curriculum can be designed, of progressively increasing difficulty, geared for mid & high schoolers. Kids may become bewildered but not schizophrenic GGG. Bewilderment is an affliction of lesser gravity, All IMHO TA you said Message #553 from w molloy at Sep 15 1999 6:53PM Tunica wrote So how are you supposed to teach a controversial subject? Well you teach all sides and you let the audience decide Don't you think that is how it should be? Here is just one small site that illustrates vividly how controversial this matter is: home.wxs.nl So my point: let's teach all this to kids; the earlier the better, because this is going to require a lot of time to study it Do you really think the material cited in home.wxs.nl is suitable for high school kids? University students - absolutely, but high school kids? They have too much on their plate already. I would prefer to teach high school kids a course in critical thinking and exercise their faculties by writing papers challenging Evolution, Creationism, Gravity, whatever. I don't think that the creationists that supported the Kansas legislation had this sort of education in mind, do you?