{"id":744,"date":"2008-10-11T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=744"},"modified":"2008-12-08T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:18:46","slug":"silly-season-in-seminole-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Silly season in Seminole County"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel editorial board made its recomendations for various school board elections<\/a>. Is it any surprise that evolution comes up at some point? Concerning the Seminole County school board district 4 seat:<\/p>\n

We are hard-pressed to find a reason why Ms. [Sylvia] Pond should unseat him [Barry Gainer], given the school system’s success. We found a pretty good reason why she shouldn’t, though. In 2004, Ms. Pond said she wanted creationism taught alongside evolution. We don’t agree. Creationism might belong in a comparative religion class, but not in science class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel editorial board made its recomendations for various school board elections. Is it any surprise that evolution comes up at some point? Concerning the Seminole County school board district 4 seat: We are hard-pressed to find a reason … Continue reading →<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-c0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1215,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1215","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":0},"title":"Keep an eye on Seminole County","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Orlando Sentinel education reporter Dave Weber recently posted on the newspaper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s education blog about a variety of tips and juicy tidbits he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been getting about Seminole County school board candidates. 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