Many would say that evolution is just a theory and opposite of that opinion many would say religion is just a book. Yet, evolution hasn’t been shut down in schools across the US for the last 80 years. America has been built off of the belief in God and that is the way it has been over 241 years. It wasn’t till 1954 that Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to put “One nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance to make that statement true. Then, around 2013-2015 the Pledge of Allegiance was taken out of schools because parents were angry their kids were being forced to follow a religion at school that they might not follow at home. Yet, in 1925, teachers weren’t able to teach the process of evolution because parents thought it would lead their kids
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If there’s enough complaints, then the Supreme Court must listen eventually and that’s exactly what happened. First, it was the Scopes Trial in 1925 which convicted an educator for trying to teach “monkey laws” for teaching human evolution. Then in 1982 it was McLean v. Arkansas which federal court strikes down a state statute requiring the teaching of creation science alongside evolution. Then again in 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court rejected a law mandating equal time for creation science in public schools. After about 13 years, schools and counties were finally opening up to the fact that evolution is what needs to be taught in schools, such as Freiler v. Tangipahoa. Courts rejected a Louisiana law requiring teachers to read a disclaimer before teaching evolution. Then five years later, Cobb County, GA ordered the removal of stickers in textbooks that declared evolution a theory, and not a …show more content…
This means that some students may actually want to learn about how we as humans became so developed throughout the millions of years we’ve been on this planet. It’s a crucial part of school to be able to learn about how we evolved from other species that came before us. Parents can keep that from their own child if they choose to do so, but keeping it from millions of other children isn’t a fair choice. Teachers believe students should learn evolution no matter what religion they are so they can have a mind of their own and decide what they believe in and what they
If there’s enough complaints, then the Supreme Court must listen eventually and that’s exactly what happened. First, it was the Scopes Trial in 1925 which convicted an educator for trying to teach “monkey laws” for teaching human evolution. Then in 1982 it was McLean v. Arkansas which federal court strikes down a state statute requiring the teaching of creation science alongside evolution. Then again in 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court rejected a law mandating equal time for creation science in public schools. After about 13 years, schools and counties were finally opening up to the fact that evolution is what needs to be taught in schools, such as Freiler v. Tangipahoa. Courts rejected a Louisiana law requiring teachers to read a disclaimer before teaching evolution. Then five years later, Cobb County, GA ordered the removal of stickers in textbooks that declared evolution a theory, and not a …show more content…
This means that some students may actually want to learn about how we as humans became so developed throughout the millions of years we’ve been on this planet. It’s a crucial part of school to be able to learn about how we evolved from other species that came before us. Parents can keep that from their own child if they choose to do so, but keeping it from millions of other children isn’t a fair choice. Teachers believe students should learn evolution no matter what religion they are so they can have a mind of their own and decide what they believe in and what they