In the last 18 months Steven Wise out of my own home town of Jacksonville Florida has done more to handicap education, teachers and public schools, than anybody in recent memory.
He has fought to increase vouchers that take money out of cash strapped schools. He has passed a teacher handicapping, that will gut the profession not based on research or best practices but based on hyperbole, low order thinking and an obvious disregard for teachers and now he seeks to pass an evolution bill too.
He said that both evolution and intelligent design must be taught in order to foster critical thinking. Mr. Wise do I have to teach abacuses and calculators to show critical thinking or how about teaching Hitler’s point of view to show it as well? Like most of your arguments do, this falls apart with any critical thinking. Mr. Wise be careful what you wish for.
His half hearted attempts to justify his actions do not hide his real motives which over and over again do harm to public education.
Mr. Wise why don’t you just come out and say it, you hate public schools?
Let me apologize to you sir for whatever that teacher did to you all those years ago to make you hate the profession and public schools so much. I am sorry. Please though stop taking it out on us. Please sir, let it go before you do even more harm.
Chris Guerrieri
School Teacher
Your attack on the Senator shows your lack of understanding of the educational process. You seem more intent on indoctrination. You should teach the thinking of Hitler, so people will be able to recognize it and stop to from happening again. If you are so convinced Darwin was right, you should teach intelligent design to help people reason through the argument to see your point. Evolution is a theory without a fully established proof. Intelligent design is also a theory without proof. Why not encourage the minds of the brightest to seriously question both in pursuit of a prooof?
ReplyDeleteI think you have some valid points. We do need to have understanding of different point of views. The thing is science isn't a point of view and this is a a thinly veiled attempt to insert his point of view into education.
ReplyDeleteWe no longer teach the theory of evolution. We teach evolution instead.