Win or Lose?

10:46 am: The Great Debate rolls on...

Cargill has asked for a slight grammatical change to the amendment as shown in the previous post. I edited that post to reflect that change, but there might be a vote on this.

10:55 am: Confusing reigns. Mavis Knight is having a hard time knowing what's going on. Cargill has asked to move a phrase to the beginning, so it would read:

"in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."

Vote for this change: 11-4

Vote on Craig's language for this amendment: 14-1

The vote to insert the amendment in the TEKS: 13-2.

Is this a victory? Did we lose? The TFN folks say that because "scientific evidence" was in the S&W language, it's a loss. Genie and Josh from NCSE aren't very happy with what happened either.

How will this language be applied to textbook selection? Tune in during 2012 to find out.


But the battle rages on, and we are going grade-by-grade for amendments. When we get to 9-12 grades, we will see if we are successful in getting some pro-science changes made.