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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I would not want to send my kids to schools run by the Texas board of education.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20130917-evolution-proponents-critics-clash-at-texas-school-boards-textbook-hearing.ece[/quote]

Me either. That is not an East Coast bias. The Texas Board of Education includes creationists, climate-change deniers, and people who don't think the Constitution requires the separation of church and state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/education/creationists-on-texas-panel-for-biology-textbooks.html?_r=0
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/[/quote]

Our founding fathers did not get their education under separation of church and states.  Let me be straight.  
[b]Climate change is still a scientific hypothesis instead of a fact. [/b]

IMHO, using political talk points to make any judgement on education is simply a crime.  I hope MCPS can be less political and more technical.
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Could you cite your source for this assertion please?

Every reputable source I have read says that climate change is a fact.  No reputable study contradicts this.

When did it become acceptable to question science because its conclusions are inconvenient or somehow distasteful to us?

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090126_climate.html[/quote]

Scientists have their models and hypothesis.  It takes time to validate those.

A couple of years back, models linked loss of arctic ice to global warming.  Now, we have this 
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/23/antarctic-sea-ice-hit-35-year-record-high-saturday/

Scientists changed their models and are discussing about climate changes now.

We need to respect science.  However, it takes time to know the truth.[/quote]

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