Wyoming Is 1st State to Reject Science Standards

[hue]

Source: abcNEWS



Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, is the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national education groups mainly because of global warming components.

The Wyoming Board of Education decided recently that the Next Generation Science Standards need more review after questions were raised about the treatment of man-made global warming.

Board President Ron Micheli said the review will look into whether "we can't get some standards that are Wyoming standards and standards we all can be proud of."

Others see the decision as a blow to science education in Wyoming.

"The science standards are acknowledged to be the best to prepare our kids for the future, and they are evidence based, peer reviewed, etc. Why would we want anything less for Wyoming?" Marguerite Herman, a proponent of the standards, said.

Twelve states have adopted the standards since they were released in April 2013 with the goal of improving science education, and Wyoming is the first to reject them, Chad Colby, spokesman for Achieve, one of the organizations that helped write the standards.

"The standards are what students should be expected to know at the end of each grade, but how a teacher teaches them is still up to the local districts and the states, and even the teachers in most cases," Colby said.

But the global warming and evolution components have created pushback around the country.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/wyoming-1st-state-reject-science-standards-23646285

[randys1]

1. god damn morons

[Soylent Brice]

37. LMAO

[Ed Suspicious]

2. Cretins.

[Politicalboi]

3. Surprise!!!!

"But the global warming and evolution components have created pushback around the country."

The deniers win in Wyoming. They deny birth control, they deny climate change, they deny evolution. WTF is wrong with these people. I'm going out on a limb here, but I bet most of those "deniers" happen to register GOP. This is just another push to try and bring back religion in the classroom. They fear the teaching of evolution will hurt their all and powerful "god". Scared sheep.

[Owl]

10. I totally agree.

[displacedtexan]

14. Why does "god" demand stupid followers?

Must not be very powerful if "he" needs "his" followers to be pig ignorant.

[2naSalit]

25. But...but...but

their god is the almighty dollar. It's just that we dullards don't get their fundamental beliefs.

And rest assured, Idaho is right there along side them in their race to the bottom.

[lunasun]

15. But the global warming and evolution components have created pushback around the country.

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[kardonb]

21. deniers

they act like a bunch of ostriches ,burying their stupid heads in the sand . One of these days , they'll suffocate , and then , of course , it''l
be us " dirty librul's " fault ,not their own brainlessness .

[DebJ]

43. Yep, all 200 of them. Isn't that the total population there?

More people in DC than in Wyoming the last time I checked.

[central scrutinizer]

51. Wyoming is about 5000 feet above sea level

so why should they care about rising oceans?

[mike_c]

4. willfull ignorance is the worst kind....

eom

[HuckleB]

5. WTF? A new kind of pseudoscience pushes into the nation.

Ugh.

[grilled onions]

6. Sad

Future generations will pay the price and many will not even understand why the polluters such as coal and the fracking industry were part of the reason they will have weather extremes and so many will have breathing problems, polluted water, few fish in what once was beautiful waterways. Trees that managed to survive will be chopped down as "they" panic about their bottom line. It IS their future. They should not be denied the chance to save the world simply because a few ignorant fools think otherwise.

[GoneFishin]

7. Science is about objectively and provably getting it correct, and rightwing freaks are wrong

about everything. It's no wonder these backward morons want their children to grow up to be even dumber than they are.

[sakabatou]

8. *headdesk*

[callous taoboy]

9. Damn the torpedos and all that...

[hue]

11. Wyoming, the vanguard of stupidity!

[muntrv]

12. Is Wyoming going to teach that the Earth is flat?

[dem in texas]

13. The "Earth is Flat" Group

Hundreds of years go by, but stupidity stays the same.

[Judi Lynn]

44. Their brains are as they were brand new, having never been used. n/t

[bobja]

16. I hope to one day read...

Wyoming Is 1st State to Expand Science Standards

[SoapBox]

17. Whoa...

The Race to the Bottom continues...and because of money.

[Ash_F]

18. They should require a test to get on the board of education. /nt

[Scootaloo]

19. What an embarassment

[kairos12]

20. Knowledge of science is not a coal, I mean goal, for the State Board of Education in Wyoming.

[Ash_F]

22. The lobby responsible for this was founded by the child of a fluorocarbon magnate

Susan Gore

http://wyliberty.org/about/staff/#ff_s=aZ3fj

Daughter of Bill Gore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gore

"He held patents in the fields of plastics, fluorocarbons, and electronics."

You can't make this shit up.

[onehandle]

23. Morons Rule! nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

24. "standards that are Wyoming standards".......What the fuck........

does that mean?

[defacto7]

35. It means things are different in Wyoming.

The laws of physics, math and even the foundation of life changes once you cross the border. It goes back to normal when you cross into Nebraska... I think.

[xocet]

40. In Wyoming, pi is 4.312596....

[defacto7]

42. Now kiddies let's find the area of the circle...

it's different in Wyoming you know! 1?r round or 2?r 2 round ?s.

Now that I think of it, that would be a great Wyoming license plate slogan.

I'ts difrnt in Yoming.

[daleanime]

26. ........

[deathrind]

27. What...

...TF does this mean?

"get some standards that are Wyoming standards and standards we all can be proud of."

Apparently these people think the environment is contained to state boundaries.

We are allowing these people to steer the ship right into the iceberg...

[defacto7]

36. Wyoming's not a state...

It is its own cosmos. Maybe another dimension. Maybe it's the Twilight Zone.

[Igel]

28. Not a problem.

I read the Next Gen science standards when they came out.

Danged if I can figure out how they'd be implemented in any way that produces accountability or seems reasonable. Very cross-linked as far as disciplines are concerned. Shows a very high level of thinking. Requires a decent depth of knowledge, having mastered facts and able to see similarities between different disciplines. How biology is like chemistry in terms of structure, energy flow, etc. All well and good, but in elementary school? Really? The "understanding" will be another fact they memorize and forget.

It asks kids to generalize about things that they can't possibly generalize about in any reasonable way at early ages because they lack experience, and asks them to consider all kinds of cross-linkages and structural analogies in how sciences are built when they have trouble solving 3x = 4y as juniors and can't remember most of their biology when they get to chemistry or most of their chemistry when they get to physics. Because it's too abstract as it is.

It makes things complicated and abstract for kids at the concrete-operational stage when they're 15. And before they even reach that stage. The standards sound great. Can't figure out what they mean in practice.

[mdbl]

29. Sounds like Wyoming is just the place to earn a degree in Science LOL

You don' t have to learn anything to graduate. They just give you the sheepskin and an application to work in the coal mines.

[Auntie Bush]

30. Too bad they won't live long enough to see all the flooding and weather changes.

Of course he'll see some but he won't believe it's man made and that we humans caused it and could have avoided much of the problems. FOOLS!

[defacto7]

38. Maybe it's that Wyoming is at a high elevation.

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They're spawn won't see the flooding so it just doesn't matter... in Wyoming.

[progressoid]

31. ugh.

[TRoN33]

32. Good riddance but...

Considering with how much pull Dick Cheney have in Wyoming politics even in retirement, nobody would dare to say 'no' to Cheney on any of topics. Cheney's 'top secret' residence is somewhere near Jackson Hole in foothills of Teton Mountains range.

[NastyRiffraff]

33. I tremble for my country

We will have children growing up completely ignorant.

[defacto7]

39. I feel the same way.

And those who are now given a factual education may be ridiculed. I would rather think the properly educated will be on top but if the majority or those most in control are taught misinformation I have my doubts.

[mindwalker_i]

34. Of course. Too many in this country value their stupidity

and call it "heritage" instead. America, fuck yeah!

[blkmusclmachine]

41. Keep 'em dumb and GOPee.

[Exposethefrauds]

45. All the real College and Universities have to do is simply state

“We will not enroll any student who’s Elementary and High Schools did not meet the Next Generation Science Standards.”
This would quickly become a non-issue.

Let the Fundies attend their christian madrassa’s.

[Cha]

46. The anti-Christians are in charge.. and they're determined to show the world how

masochistically stupid they are.

[ck4829]

47. "If it doesn't make the CEO of Coal Inc tons of money, then it's CLEARLY not science!"

Just cut out the middeman.

[olegramps]

48. What do you expect from a state that gave us Cheney.

[pampango]

49. If science impacts your wallet (and climate science often will) simply reject science.

There's a party for that.

[truebrit71]

50. Fucking morons...no wonder the rest of the world thinks we're fucking idiots...

[Scuba]

52. Well, the elevation in Laramie is 7,166 feet, so maybe they think it's just Miami's problem.