Frazier Mountain High Schoolers to take Ping Pong instead - By N.L. Belardes
Why not ping pong? Might be fun. It's sort of like a debate back and forth until one side gets smashed or until the ball just plain rolls off the table...
Anyway...
How strange. I can’t get the Californian to write about me, or Howard Owens to have a friendly lunch at a local blogger dive, and here is my niece, tucked away on the often snowy banks of Frazier Park Mountain and suddenly appearing on World News Tonight on ABC and beamed into every house in America. How come I can’t get such press??
All in the now ended saga of a Philosophy of Design course… (read my special report)
Frazier Mountain High school wimped out and the opposing side cried victory today, not because the Frazier Mountain nemesis won a court battle, but because the accusers had deeper pockets. Who knows who would have won the court battle had Frazier Mountain been tough enough to tackle a court case, or what threats were laid upon Frazier Mountain High School so they would give in and promise never teach a class of the sort ever again. Sounds like when I used to catch my kids' hands in the cookie jar. “I’m sorry. I will never do it again,” they would say and beg forgiveness, cookies still like stars in their eyes. Whatever. C’mon Frazier Mountain, you should have showed some more backbone while the world’s eyes were on you.
Too late for that.
So, was the Philosophy of Design course a loosely disguised veil of Christian fundamentalism creeping into philosophy? Maybe. So what? The debate should go on in the classroom with kids wanting to debate. Heck, the Old Testament as literature used to be taught at Bakersfield area high schools and at the local college. I don’t think the state of Bakersfield is worse off for it. If evolution is so scientific and without holes in logic, why do evolutionists so worry about intelligent design and creationism in a philosophy course? Are they worried that the ability to ponder thoughts of an intelligent higher power would somehow bring science to its knees?
In the words of one of my favorite episodes of Dilbert: “That’s crazy talk!”
At least my family learned from this senseless debacle of big money vs. little school.
Because that’s what it’s really about: the threat of big money versus a peaceful small town not wanting to go bankrupt over the integrity of deciding which classes they should teach.
more: makes you wonder what the real story is...
more and more...
Anyway...
How strange. I can’t get the Californian to write about me, or Howard Owens to have a friendly lunch at a local blogger dive, and here is my niece, tucked away on the often snowy banks of Frazier Park Mountain and suddenly appearing on World News Tonight on ABC and beamed into every house in America. How come I can’t get such press??
All in the now ended saga of a Philosophy of Design course… (read my special report)
Frazier Mountain High school wimped out and the opposing side cried victory today, not because the Frazier Mountain nemesis won a court battle, but because the accusers had deeper pockets. Who knows who would have won the court battle had Frazier Mountain been tough enough to tackle a court case, or what threats were laid upon Frazier Mountain High School so they would give in and promise never teach a class of the sort ever again. Sounds like when I used to catch my kids' hands in the cookie jar. “I’m sorry. I will never do it again,” they would say and beg forgiveness, cookies still like stars in their eyes. Whatever. C’mon Frazier Mountain, you should have showed some more backbone while the world’s eyes were on you.
Too late for that.
So, was the Philosophy of Design course a loosely disguised veil of Christian fundamentalism creeping into philosophy? Maybe. So what? The debate should go on in the classroom with kids wanting to debate. Heck, the Old Testament as literature used to be taught at Bakersfield area high schools and at the local college. I don’t think the state of Bakersfield is worse off for it. If evolution is so scientific and without holes in logic, why do evolutionists so worry about intelligent design and creationism in a philosophy course? Are they worried that the ability to ponder thoughts of an intelligent higher power would somehow bring science to its knees?
In the words of one of my favorite episodes of Dilbert: “That’s crazy talk!”
At least my family learned from this senseless debacle of big money vs. little school.
Because that’s what it’s really about: the threat of big money versus a peaceful small town not wanting to go bankrupt over the integrity of deciding which classes they should teach.
more: makes you wonder what the real story is...
more and more...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006.
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Are you sure it's going to be friendly?
I like Jerry's hamburgers.
H.
In fact, as I think about it, a Jerry's hamburger sounds pretty good for today. So long as I don't get held up in the office, I'll walk over there about noon today.
-- H.
How could it not be? I'm thinking why not take it to another level, Howard. Chinese buffet.
I can already think of the blog entry.... "Hamburgers at High Noon in the Pizza-a-go-go..."
I think the money issue was a smokescreen on the ID class issue..School Districts are insured against lawsuits.
make sure you tell us about lunch w/Howard..who thinks I am a male btw..
Up here, yes the school did not
want to go through all the publicity or having the non-Christians harrasing us moral
people up here. But who are we to judge, when we are not in the
class listening and learning.
I am proud of my daughter standing
up for what she belives in, and
her uncle understands how she
feels. Don't step into someone
else's shoes unless you can
comprehend the WHOLE Enchalada!!!
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