Wyoming first state to block new science standards

Rejecting the facts because they are inconvenient is evil. It's the same kind of thinking that leads women to refuse to believe their children when they report they are being molested by their father. Besides the general wrongness of denying reality, both of these instances of denial of reality allow harm to children.

I have added Wyoming to the list of places NOT to move to.

http://trib.com/news/local/education/wyoming-first-state-to-block-new-science-standards/article_5d0ec624-6b50-5354-b015-ca2f5f7d7efe.html

March 14, 2014 7:00 am • By LEAH TODD Star-Tribune staff writer

Wyoming is the first state to block a new set of national science standards, but a week after Gov. Matt Mead signed off on the change, education advocates are still digesting what the action means for the state.

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One of lawmakers' big concerns with the Next Generation Science Standards is an expectation that students will understand humans have significantly altered the Earth's biosphere. In other words, the standards say global warming is real.

That's a problem for some Wyoming lawmakers.

"[The standards] handle global warming as settled science," said Rep. Matt Teeters, a Republican from Lingle who was one of the footnote's authors. "There's all kind of social implications involved in that that I don't think would be good for Wyoming."

Teeters said teaching global warming as fact would wreck Wyoming's economy, as the state is the nation's largest energy exporter, and cause other unwanted political ramifications.

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