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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 krishnoid on Tuesday January 31 2017, @09:29PM
Scientific study of the environment and its future (as opposed to radical leftist propaganda) is more important than evolution.
We can get both:
That way, evolution education will stick around if it confers a reproductive and/or survival advantage over creationism education. Students/teachers learn about the environment and get to see natural selection occur in front of their eyes. Win-win!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:23PM
We can get both
Continuing the devils advocate analysis, in that specific case yes just toss a 3rd subject out instead, but in general education is a zero-sum game and given X hours of class per day, X days per year, X years per life, every hour spent on topic Z is implicitly stating an hour of topic Z is more important than an hour of every other topic under the sun.
You wanna add evolution something gotta go. Gym class? Art history? Football? Long division? Environmental sciences? Computer science?
I'm thinking evolution is pretty low on the list of life skills for the general public. I'm not saying its worthless, anymore than say automata theory is worthless. I bet teen kids could learn automata theory, if they invested the time. It might or might not be more useful to the general public, thats a good debate.
Remember we're talking about the general public here. Not MD programs or even nursing programs. Not geologists or archeologists or geneticists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:30AM
Gym class? Art history? Football?
I'll go with those three. Gym class is teaching those who aren't already fit to hate exercise, and football splits people up into the bullies and the bullied.
And hart history? Completely useless.