If The Goal of the Bush Administration Is To Make American Children Scientifically Illiterate, They Are Succeeding Far Beyond Anyone's Expectations

When George Bush became governor of Texas, one of the things he did was to make the school system in the state become far more concerned with extrinsic markers than on actual education of children. Since he was handed the presidency in 2000, Mr. Bush has continued through disastrous programs like "No Child Left Behind [In Any Public School Worth Its Weight]" to make sure that education of our society's future leaders is not what the public schools do.

With this gripe in mind, let me recommend that you read The Times' "How to Make Sure Children Are Scientifically Illiterate" which tackles the Kansas battle over Evolution vs. (Anything But) Intelligent Design and those unfortunately growing percentage of Americans who find any type of knowledge a severe and critical threat to religion, as if God did not provide us with our minds and did not imply that we should feed those brains appropriately.