{"id":434,"date":"2008-02-07T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T02:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:29:05","slug":"bay-county-considers-anti-evolution-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Bay County considers anti-evolution resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess where Bay County is at in Florida. In the north, you say? How did you ever guess?<\/p>\n<p>Why am I writing a post about Bay County? Because the school board is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/news\/headlines\/15407591.html\">considering an anti-evolution resolution<\/a>, you say? How did you guess that? Go to the school district&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bay.k12.fl.us\/departments\/schoolboard\/Minutes\/tabid\/385\/Default.aspx\">agenda page<\/a> and click on the one for next Wednesday. Scroll on down to the action items.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>School Board of Bay County FL Resolution for Sunshine State Standards for Science<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The board meeting is Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. I&#8217;m having trouble determining from the website where the meeting is held. The agenda just says the meeting is in the board room. I assume the address is:  Nelson Admin. Building, 1311 Balboa Avenue, Panama CIty, FL  32401, 872-4100. Contact the school board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bay.k12.fl.us\/departments\/schoolboard\/MeetaBoardMember\/tabid\/362\/Default.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if there can be another victory like in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=430\">Highlands County<\/a>. But that all depends on who shows up at the meeting and what those attendees have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess where Bay County is at in Florida. In the north, you say? How did you ever guess? Why am I writing a post about Bay County? Because the school board is considering an anti-evolution resolution, you say? How did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=434\">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":[6,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-70","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":440,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=440","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":0},"title":"Anti-evolution resolutions aren&#8217;t done yet","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bay County passed an anti-evolution resolution. The only unique thing here is that one person on the board didn't vote for the resolution, whereas all other resolutions passed unanimously. The majority of board members supported the resolution. Board member Ginger Littleton cast the only dissenting vote. Greg Laden read a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Our Science Standards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Our Science Standards","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=381","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":1},"title":"Two more resolutions","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[this post updated with a third county for a total of six so far] I've been doing a methodical search of school district websites for any information that might reveal more school boards issuing anti-evolution resolutions like Taylor, Baker and Holmes did. (Previous post about: possibility of 12 total counties\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":352,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=352","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":2},"title":"Those not in favor of good science education, raise your hand.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[I will bump this post up about once a week so as to always be on the front page. Latest bump: Feb. 15.] For your convenience, here is a list of the 12 counties that passed anti-evolution resolutions: Clay, Jackson, Baker, Hamilton, Holmes, St. Johns, Taylor, Madison, Lafayette, Nassau, Washington,\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":396,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=396","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":3},"title":"Nassau and Jackson counties","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was in a hurry when I posted about the news article this morning about some more counties passing or considering anti-evolution resolutions, so I couldn't do any research concerning the counties mentioned in the story. Now that I have a little bit of time, let's see what we can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Our Science Standards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Our Science Standards","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":379,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=379","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":4},"title":"Breathtaking inanity","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm embarrassed. Sure, the Taylor County school board was apparently the first to pass a resolution complaining about evolution (previous post here), but they're not the only one. Two more counties passed resolutions, too: Baker County and Holmes County. The Baker County board meeting minutes from Dec. 17 say on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In the News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":402,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=402","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":5},"title":"Another resolution slipped in","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Madison County school district doesn't post agendas or minutes to their website that I could find. However, a commenter at Scott Hatfield's Monkey Trials blog was kind enough to inform everyone that Madison County did actually pass an anti-evolution resolution recently. Sure enough, the local newspaper, the Madison County Carrier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In the News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}