Candidate for Texas SBoE: If a school board says that dinosaur and man coexisted, it should teach it

[ck4829]

Teach the controversy!

"Democrat Judy Jennings wants to get on the State Board of Education to take out politics and partisan rancor. So in her first—and likely only—debate, she played hardball and attacked her Republican opponent Marsha Farney. Contradiction? Maybe. It also may be her only shot at the seat.

After Jennings laughed off a question asking whether she believed humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together—"That's outrageous!"—Farney took a measured approach. While she too does not believe that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together, she argued for local control. "If a school district wants to (teach creationism), they can" in an alternative course, she said. In fact local control was a kind of mantra for Farney on hot button issues ranging from abstinence education to building curricula."

http://www.texasobserver.org/hotonthetrail/see-they-can-debate-candidates-for-the-sboe-duke-it-out

Infinite facepalms, how can someone even consider that there is a "measured approach" as to whether dinosaurs and humans lived together?

[Scuba]

1. OK, then we need a school board member who says....

...Republicans eat puppies.

[The Philosopher]

2. Often

School boards only exist to include religion in public schools. Even for those atheist kids.