{"id":1350,"date":"2008-02-03T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/03\/attitudes-about-evolution-in-f\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T16:00:37","slug":"attitudes-about-evolution-in-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/attitudes-about-evolution-in-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitudes about Evolution in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to point you to an interesting piece on teaching evolution in Florida:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes, Allyn Sue Baylor doesn&#8217;t teach evolution in her science class, even though the state requires it. She knows of other teachers who duck the issue, too.They fear a backlash.&#8221;There are cases when parents have gotten really upset,&#8221; said Baylor, who teaches at Palm Harbor Middle School in Pinellas County. &#8220;It&#8217;s scary. You can lose your job.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its an interesting article in the St Pete&#8217;s times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2008\/02\/03\/State\/The_evolution_of_a_se.shtml\">Here.<\/a>Which reminds me to remind you.  If you want your public school teachers to teach evolution to your children, please mention this to them.That is what I do.  I introduce myself to the life science teachers this way:&#8221;Hi.  I&#8217;m Greg, Julia&#8217;s dad.  I just want you to know that I&#8217;ve heard you are a great teacher.  I expect you&#8217;ll be teaching excellent science, including a full treatment of evolution.  In fact, I&#8217;m one of those parents that, when I find out that religion is being pushed on my child in a public school, I go right to the ACLU.  So, you can count on my full support if anybody gives you a hard time.&#8221;&#8230; the whole statement is made during a hearty hand shake, also grasping the teacher by the shoulder in a friendly fashion.It works great.  Might as well hit up the social studies teacher while you are at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to point you to an interesting piece on teaching evolution in Florida:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}