{"id":437,"date":"2008-02-11T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:23:03","slug":"reports-on-the-orlando-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Reports on the Orlando meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like me, you have to work for a living and so had no chance to attend today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public forum in Orlando concerning the new draft of the state science standards. There were apparently plenty of other folks who were able to attend, though, judging from various news accounts popping up. The St. Petersburg Times education blog<\/a> reports that anti-evolution forces outnumbered the pro-science folks 2 to 1. The Orlando Sentinel education blog<\/a> says that about 75 people had the opportunity to speak. It looks like those speaking on behalf of sound science had a firm grounding in the subject while those opposed \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n

Richard Ellenburg, the Orange County science teacher who won the Florida Teacher of the Year honors last year, was one of a number of educators who urged passage of the new standards.<\/p>\n

“Any dilution or revision of the standards would be a disservice to the students of Florida and to our very future,” he said.<\/p>\n

But Julie Williams, a Panhandle woman, said passage of the standards would further diminish the “Christian influence” in public schools. “I am a Christian who does believe God created the world in seven days,” she said. “There are a lot of proven facts in the bible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TV station WFTV<\/a> did a story for the noon news.<\/p>\n

If you attended or were able to watch over the Internet, please tell us in the comments how it went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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