{"id":408,"date":"2008-01-25T06:27:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=408"},"modified":"2008-08-07T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:06:01","slug":"heads-up-anti-evolution-heads-south-to-highlands-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Heads-up: Anti-evolution heads south to Highlands County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Tribune (Highlands Today) reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.highlandstoday.com\/content\/2008\/jan\/25\/board-opposes-evolution-being-taught-fact\/\">Highlands County school board members<\/a> need to learn their science. This is the first county that&#8217;s not in north Florida to have this discussion. They haven&#8217;t done a resolution yet, but they want to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SEBRING \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Four of five members of the School Board of Highlands County oppose the proposed change in the state&#8217;s science standards that would present evolution as fact to students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Norris, who is also a Lutheran minister, has stated that evolution should not be taught as fact and that students should be able to discuss creationism in class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>School Board Vice Chairman Andy Tuck said Thursday, &#8220;as a person of faith, I strongly oppose any study of evolution as fact at all. I&#8217;m purely in favor of it staying a theory and only a theory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Tribune (Highlands Today) reports that Highlands County school board members need to learn their science. This is the first county that&#8217;s not in north Florida to have this discussion. They haven&#8217;t done a resolution yet, but they want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-6A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":423,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=423","url_meta":{"origin":408,"position":0},"title":"Highlands County considering their anti-evolution resolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone in or near Highlands County needs to stop by the school board meeting this Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Garland Boggus Board Room, 426 School St., Sebring. The board members will be considering their anti-evolution resolution. Please feel free to take along our media fact sheet. These folks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1995,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1995","url_meta":{"origin":408,"position":1},"title":"New State Board of Education Member: no evolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This week our governor appointed a new member to the state Board of Education: Gov. Rick Scott has made his next pick for the state Board of Education: citrus grower and former Highlands County School Board Chairman Andy Tuck. We have a problem. 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