EDITORIAL: Alabama Education Initiative
The Alabama Board of Education has voted to keep putting stickers
on biology textbooks to warn that evolution is "a controversial
theory." (The board has been doing this since 1996).
In our view this is commendable. It is one of the few actions any
stuffy government committee has ever taken that might actually
encourage students to become curious about what is in their
textbooks.
Our criticism -- yes, we do have one -- is that this move does not
go far enough. If the Alabama Board of Education truly wants
students to be aware that the subject is worth discussing, we urge
them to add a second sticker, printed in bold red type, saying:
WARNING: EVOLUTION INVOLVES S-E-X
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