Christina Comer a former state science curriculum director\u00c2\u00a0who lost her job at the Texas Education Agency has sued the TEA and\u00c2\u00a0Education Commissioner Robert Scott,alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to promote intelligent design in science classes.<\/p>\n
Comer said she lost her job for contravening an “unconstitutional” policy at the agency, which required employees to be neutral on the subject of creationism.The policy was in force, according to the suit, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that teaching creationism as science in public schools is illegal. The agency’s ‘neutrality’ policy has the purpose or effect of endorsing religion, and thus violates the Establishment Clause” of the U.S. Constitution, the lawsuit said.\u00c2\u00a0Comer\u00c2\u00a0stated she\u00c2\u00a0was fired without due process after serving as the state science director for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n
It would seem rather ironic that those who profess to support “Academic Freedom” require that freedom only when it profits their own ideologies.<\/p>\n
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Christina Comer a former state science curriculum director\u00c2\u00a0who lost her job at the Texas Education Agency has sued the TEA and\u00c2\u00a0Education Commissioner Robert Scott,alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to … Continue reading