{"id":2240,"date":"2014-10-20T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2014-10-20T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:22:21","slug":"its-just-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Just Not Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know what I’m about to offer can in no way be considered anything close to scientifically accurate, but I do feel that it is at worse a fair example of what is going on in many of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s school districts.<\/p>\n

As some of you know, last year I started asking 11\/12 k students if they were, or had been, studying evolution in their biology classes and quizzed them on a few basic questions on TOE (which 80% of the students failed to answer). I also began talking to the same grade science teachers to see if they covered TOE in their classes.<\/p>\n

Since August last year I have spoken to well over 100 students and 30 teachers from 19 different high schools, covering four counties. Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk and Hardee. I have documented the results, although I promised anonymity, particularly to the teachers.<\/p>\n

As I said, I’m no statistician, but basically just over 72% of those students either covered TOE briefly or not at all and out of the teachers I questioned, 58% admitted they hardly taught the subject or ignored it completely. Ninety percent of the teachers said they are just trying to avoid conflicts with students or parents. Polk and Hardee had the worse numbers, then Pasco, with Hillsborough being the best. I’m sure if this research was conducted on a state level, we would find similar results, some counties faring better than others. However, considering that Evolution is a large part of the biology science standards, these findings are appalling. All districts should follow the standards without exception and this is just not happening.<\/p>\n

You can have all the NGSS <\/a>you want, but if the FDOE are not following up with any monitoring of the standards, district by district, they mean little or nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know what I’m about to offer can in no way be considered anything close to scientifically accurate, but I do feel that it is at worse a fair example of what is going on in many of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s school districts. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-A8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2746,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2746","url_meta":{"origin":2240,"position":0},"title":"Heartland’s junk mail arrives in Florida","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was my last day of school with students for the year. 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