PZ Myers has a post up about how Arkansas sutdents aren’t being taught evolution even though it’s in the state standards.
Arkansas is not alone.
An editor at The State tells us to not worry about science teaching challenging some religious beliefs because teachers aren’t teaching the science anyway.
Dr. Woodall [Union High School principal] learned about Charles Darwin’s origin of life theory at Furman University, when it was still a Baptist school. She didn’t buy the idea that life evolved randomly, or that human beings can be traced back to single-cell organisms. But that didn’t limit her as a teacher, because biology teachers in South Carolina don’t have to teach that; she doesn’t know of any who do.
Well, I guess that explains something about South Carolina’s test scores. The standards aren’t the problem. We’re just not using them.