Academic Freedom Bill Provides Cover to Teach Creationism, Climate Denial in Classrooms
Representative Valoree Swanson, R-Spring, is making a case for why her bill protecting the “academic freedom” of public school teachers wouldn’t amount to an unconstitutional teaching of religion in classrooms.
House Bill 1485 would “free our teachers to where they don’t live in fear of frivolous accusations” and give teachers the ability to criticize scientific theories, she told members of the House Public Education Committee Tuesday evening. Among the theories that teachers would be able to question in elementary, middle school and high school classrooms? Climate change.
“Things keep coming up where certain scientists have faked the results on temperature results and many other things,” she said, repeating a common climate denier theory. “Many of the strongest proponents of climate change are now coming out and saying it’s simply not true and we need to reevaluate that.”
The overwhelming majority of climate researchers agree that the earth is rapidly warming as a result of human activity and that the consequences could be catastrophic if carbon pollution isn’t curbed. The Republican Party is the only major political party in the world to deny climate change.
Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/academic-freedom-bill-provides-cover-teach-creationism-climate-denial-texas-classrooms/
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