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Not surprising, Kansas has never been a promoter of free thinking. In Kansas science is exact. Exactly what you're told it is, be it right or wrong.

What we really have here is the age old battle between church and state. Unfortunately, state has been able to eliminate the competition, or balance, through misinterpretation of our Constitution. The separation of church and state was meant to keep balance not give power to the state. Our education system is a good example of what happens when balance is lost.

Years ago most often schools were simply a local families home and the teachers were members of that family and the community. Politicians didn't like the idea that this promoted free thinking by allowing the teachers to influence students morally. At this time it was the parents choice where they would take their kids for education. They(parents) had the choice as to what influences their kids were exposed to. Politicians saw the opportunity and seized it through bastardizing the Constitution.

They managed to change separation of church and state to mean elimination of church from state.

By eliminating religion as competition in education they now have free run to push their own political agendas on your children. They make the rules period. They tell us what is science and what is not. How many of our life changing advancements in science throughout history started out labeled "cannot be proved scientifically?" This is not the science vs religion our state education system is trying to make it. It is two theories that neither one has yet to be proved.

Our school system has become little more than a political podium. The choice by parents as to how their kids are educated is gone except for the choice of home schooling, and even that is monitored by the state.

This whole screwed up mess reminds me of that Star Trek(the motion picture) movie where Voyager comes back to earth asking "Is this all there is?" "Is this all I am?" It's mission was to learn all there is to learn and bring that information back to the creator. In the end it had learned all with it's scientific limitations and needed to bound with the creator(human) so that it could have the ability to leap beyond logic and continue to evolve and learn through the human ability imagine and believe in what cannot be proved scientifically.