Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Description of Artwork: Discovery Works was a science textbook used in Marshall County’s middle schools. It featured two pages elucidating the Big Bang Theory.

    The Incident: Superintendent Kenneth Shadowen, after hearing complaints from parents about the book, recalled all of them from the students and ordered school staff to glue the two offending pages together.

    I’m wondering if “complaints from parents” was organic and just a few loud Karens making trouble, or a bunch of Karens pointed at the school by some wingnut activist group, like a local church?

    In any case: JFC, some people are so very fucking stupid. Imagine, being offended by science.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      My impression at the time was the superintendent acted on his own. Not even the board of education was involved, and they weren’t happy to be blindsided.

      My guess is the

      1. superintendent had a student in that grade,
      2. student came home with new textbook,
      3. superintendent saw the ‘blasphemy’ in the new-that-year textbooks,
      4. superintendent was his own Karen.