Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: May 15, 2017 03:46PM
"[Eventually impeached Arizona Mormon governing Evan] Mecham appointed as his education advisor a retired, conservative [Mormon] dairy farmer [Jim Cooper], who encouraged the State Education Committee to favor a bill requiring that creationism be taught alongside evolution in public schools. He was widely quoted for saying that teachers have 'no business correcting students whose parents teach them the earth is flat'{'Time,' 9 March 1987, p. 42)."
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V22N03_83.pdf"[Mecham] added the appointment of a state education adviser [Brother Cooper] who proclaimed that teachers did not have the right to contradict students whose parents teach them the earth is flat."
http://kensmith.us/?p=644Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/15/2017 04:12PM by steve benson.