{"id":108,"date":"2007-01-27T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-01-27T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T17:01:31","slug":"federal-way-schools-restrict-gore-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Federal Way schools restrict Gore film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/299253_inconvenient11.html\">Federal Way schools restrict Gore film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After conservative parents complained, the Federal Way schools adopted a new policy towards this film in which teachers must get permission to show it and then include alternative views.\u00a0 Since the parents who complained also believe that the world is only 14,000 years old and that the Bible provides actual information about how the world will end, I wonder what other alternative views they think should be provided?\u00a0 For instance, when we teach about dinosaurs, do we also need to suggest that despite all evidence to the contrary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/mesozoic\/jurassic\/jurassintro.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Jurassic period<\/a> could not possibly have happened?<\/p>\n<p>This really, though, is a media literacy debate.\u00a0 Students should be given both sides of this controversy and then allowed to make up their own minds say the protesters.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Since when did fundamentalists allow anyone to make up their own mind?\u00a0 The goal here is to further an agenda that, IMHO, is out of touch with science and the real world.\u00a0 Yes, there is controversy among scientists about global warming, although the recent news about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,11069-2520955,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">polar bears<\/a> seems to have at least convinced President Bush, but it seems pretty ridiculous that educators are expected to incorporate a Biblical view in the classroom?\u00a0 And that the complains of some pretty right of center parents can influence everyone in a school division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Way schools restrict Gore film After conservative parents complained, the Federal Way schools adopted a new policy towards this film in which teachers must get permission to show it and then include alternative views.\u00a0 Since the parents who complained also believe that the world is only 14,000 years old and that the Bible provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Way schools restrict Gore film<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-literacy","category-thinking-out-loud"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}