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One of the strangest responses to the recent phony culture war flapdoodle is that schools should be limited to teaching basic skills -- reading and math, I suppose, and maybe shop and home economics. If public schools teach history, science, social studies and literature, students might learn something their parents don ' t want them to.It seems to me there are really  two or three separate phenomena going on here. We need to keep them straight. The first is people who don ' t believe certain objective truths, of science or history. An example which the courts have already dealt with is evolution.  In 2004, the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania required that " intelligent design " be taught as an alternative to evolution in 9th grade biology. Some parents sued. The court ruled that intelligent design is not science, and permanently enjoined the school board from requiring teachers to disparage the theory of evolution, or to present intelligent design as an alternative scientific theory. Creationism is also is incompatible with physics, geology and astronomy.  To have a successful society, we need a scientifically literate populace, and that means that children need to learn how scientists think and what constitutes a scientific theory, and conclusion. Parents who object to this are simply ignorant, and wrong. They are not acting in the best interest of their children. So this one is easy. There are also historical truths to which some pe...
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