{"id":3417,"date":"2019-01-29T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2019-01-29T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:21:41","slug":"florida-senator-schools-need-to-teach-different-worldviews-on-issues-like-evolution-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"Florida Senator: schools need to teach ‘different worldviews’ on issues like evolution and climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Senator Dennis Baxley filed Senate Bill 330<\/a> recently, a piece of legislation that puts the teaching of evolution and climate change in Florida public schools directly in his line of fire.<\/p>\n

Up until now, all we knew for sure was that he filed a bill that would allow school districts to create their own sets of academic standards instead of using the state’s standards, provided the new standards are equally or more rigorous. (Rigorous is left undefined in the bill, of course.) And if a district adopts their own standards, the bill requires in the new science standards that: “Controversial theories and concepts shall be taught in a factual, objective, and balanced manner.” We’re quite sure what is meant by controversial theories, but we hadn’t heard it directly from Baxley. Now we have.<\/p>\n

An article in the Tampa Bay Times tells us what Baxley is thinking:\u00c2\u00a0Florida bill would have students learn alternatives to climate change, evolution<\/a><\/p>\n

The bill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sponsor, Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, said that schools need to teach \u00e2\u20ac\u0153different worldviews\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on issues like evolution and climate change. He asserts that textbooks now skew toward \u00e2\u20ac\u0153uniformity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of thought.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing is ever settled if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science, because people are always questioning science,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Baxley said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you look at the history of human learning, for a long time the official worldview was that the world was flat. Anything you now accept as fact comes from a perspective and you learn from examining different schools of thought.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To see the history and regular updates concerning this bill, please follow up on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> and check our issues page on this bill (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Controversial Theories\/Rigorous Standards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bills 2019<\/a>) regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Senate Bill 966\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s purpose is to revise \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; providing that such standards are the minimum baseline core content standards for K-12 public schools.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Controversial Theories bill 2017\/18"","block_context":{"text":"Controversial Theories bill 2017\/18","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=34"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3423,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3423","url_meta":{"origin":3417,"position":4},"title":"News Roundup 2\/2\/19: Controversial Theories in Science bill","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"There was quite a flurry of news earlier this week about the bill filed in the state senate that would allow Florida school districts to create\/adopt their own sets of academic standards as long as they are equally or more rigorous than the state's standards. 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