Eric Rothschild
Eric Rothschild
Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al.was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design. In October 2004, the Dover Area School District of York County, Pennsylvania, changed its biology teaching curriculum to require that intelligent design be presented as an alternative to evolution theory, and that Of Pandas and People, a textbook advocating intelligent design, was to be used...
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They did everything you would do if you wanted to incorporate a religious point of view in a science class and cared nothing about its scientific validity.
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Future school boards or states that are considering it should be aware of how much it costs to bring a case like this to protect individuals' constitutional rights.
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We're fighting for the 1st Amendment, the separation of church and state, and the integrity of schools. This trial should decide whether a school board can impose its religious views on other students.
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This will not be the last case of this nature. I think that future school boards and school districts aware of this decision have to think very carefully about whether they want to put their communities through this.