Wednesday, June 08, 2005
A Modest Proposal
Looking ahead to what might be done to protect Kansas students from being stigmatized when they apply to college after the Kansas State Board of Education votes, as expected later this summer, to devalue science education in the state, Mike Hoeflich, a professor in the Kansas University School of Law has a modest proposal in an Op-ed in the Lawrence Journal-World.
"Our universities and their faculty can establish a voluntary association for Kansas high schools who wish to continue to teach evolution as good science. University faculty could serve on accrediting panels and study high school curricula and visit high school classes to ensure that good science is being taught.
"When they find that this is so, they could then give these high schools a 'sign of approval' that high schools could advertise and place on student transcripts so that all institutions of higher learning to which their graduates might apply would know that these graduates had adequate scientific training in high school. No high school would have to join this association and no high school would have to seek accreditation. It would be entirely voluntary. But those who chose to do so, could. And in so doing could protect their reputations and their students."
