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Not only in America, teaching evolution is under attack. Indeed, future Turkish children will likely not learn about evolution in school, as soL international reports:
İsmet Yılmaz, the Minister of National Education in Turkey on Friday announced the new curriculum draft for school. After the draft is finalized, textbooks will be published based on the new draft to be used starting from 2017-2018 academic year.
The new curriculum draft brings some radical changes:
[...] Evolution Theory is excluded from Biology courses. The related unit named "The Origins of Life and the Evolution" is replaced with "Living Beings and Environment".
This is actually not the first strike against evolution in Turkey:
In 2013, the government had made a regulation, which let the Intelligent Design model to be included in the curriculum besides the Evolution Theory.
Also at Turkish Minute: Gov't removes evolution theory from new school curriculum
Related: What is Turkey's problem with Darwin?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:33PM
That's a lot of words.
Here's a much simpler rebuttal: Teach science in science class.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:51PM
That's a pretty good rebuttal. No sarcasm. "Don't micromanage" is almost always very good advice.
The only devils advocate counter-rebuttal I can provide is in a highly religious culture, no micromanaging means their equivalent of devout rural Mississippi kids are going to skip the evolution unit and do enviro and their progressive urbanites kids will end up skipping the environmental unit and doing the evolution unit and I kinda thought the whole point of a national standard for education was producing a standard commodity product and this kinda ruins it, uni and employers can't assume a kid has exposure to non-micromanaged topics. Possibly this is one of the weird/rare examples where micromanagement and regulation actually provides a net gain. Better to know for certain at the uni admissions level that all the kids know or don't know certain topics rather than guessing based on the last name of their science teacher on their transcript if they know evolution or if they know environmental sciences WRT pre-reqs.