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https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/evolution-questioned-creationist-group-challenges-kansas-science-curriculum
Enter Kansas-based Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE), a group that claims “children have the right to be objectively informed about controversial explanations that impact religious beliefs, rather than be indoctrinated to accept a particular explanation.” (How ironic that this group opposes one-sided indoctrination.)
COPE has decided to sue on behalf of 15 Christian parents, most of whom have children in public schools, plus two other taxpayers living in the state. They say evolution is just not as concrete as scientists argue.
“The state’s job is simply to say to students, ‘How life arises continues to be a scientific mystery and there are competing ideas about it,’” John Calvert, a Kansas City-area attorney involved with the case, told the AP.
http://www.copeinc.org/docs/legal-complaint.pdf
The Plaintiffs, consisting of students, parents and Kansas resident taxpayers, and a representative organization, complain that the adoption by the Defendant State Board of Education on June 11, 2013 of Next Generation Science Standards, dated April 2013 (the Standards; Next Generation Science Standards) and the related Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas, (2012;(http://www.nap.ed /catalog.php?record_id=13165#), incorporated therein by reference (the "Framework" with the Framework and Standards referred to herein as the "F&S") will have the effect of causing Kansas public schools to establish and endorse a non-theistic religious worldview (the "Worldview") in violation of the Establishment, Free Exercise, and Speech Clauses of the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clauses of the 14th Amendment.
Enter Kansas-based Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE), a group that claims “children have the right to be objectively informed about controversial explanations that impact religious beliefs, rather than be indoctrinated to accept a particular explanation.” (How ironic that this group opposes one-sided indoctrination.)
COPE has decided to sue on behalf of 15 Christian parents, most of whom have children in public schools, plus two other taxpayers living in the state. They say evolution is just not as concrete as scientists argue.
“The state’s job is simply to say to students, ‘How life arises continues to be a scientific mystery and there are competing ideas about it,’” John Calvert, a Kansas City-area attorney involved with the case, told the AP.
http://www.copeinc.org/docs/legal-complaint.pdf
The Plaintiffs, consisting of students, parents and Kansas resident taxpayers, and a representative organization, complain that the adoption by the Defendant State Board of Education on June 11, 2013 of Next Generation Science Standards, dated April 2013 (the Standards; Next Generation Science Standards) and the related Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas, (2012;(http://www.nap.ed /catalog.php?record_id=13165#), incorporated therein by reference (the "Framework" with the Framework and Standards referred to herein as the "F&S") will have the effect of causing Kansas public schools to establish and endorse a non-theistic religious worldview (the "Worldview") in violation of the Establishment, Free Exercise, and Speech Clauses of the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clauses of the 14th Amendment.
