Scopes Trial
About a year ago I had a very interesting conversation. I was volunteering at the White Plains Hospital at the time and was talking to my Supervisor, Carol. I was taking inventory and filling out some paperwork and we started talking. She started explaining how she thought that evolution was no longer taught in school and how creation was now the accepted model in science. Mind you this was only one year ago and from my experiences and my knowledge the opposite was true. What really shocked me was that she was teaching sixth grade science. Was a new generation of students following the opinions of woman over what was accepted in society? The separation of church and state was being attacked at the lowest level with most impressionable minds. I was deeply troubled by this but I could not figure it out until the topic of the Scopes trial came up in my American History class. I finally realized what I had just experiences was the scopes trial in reverse. I felt offended that someone was putting their personal view over mine, offended that I could have been taught someone’s personal opinion over actual fact. I was offended that this teacher was going against society in what she was teaching. Most of all I was offended t
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