"I am from Kansas and resent ( pandion ) being called stupid simply for living here . That being said , the people who voted for these school board folks do deserve to be called stupid . Well they would if they had much of a choice . I ca n't say this for sure , but knowing Kansas politics , I would say that , chances are , there was only one person on the ticket and if there were more , they probably all held the same views on evolution . That 's most of Kansas for ya . As a Missourian once said about Kansans : You 'd vote for a cupcake if it registered republican . There is an exception to this rule though . After the first evolution debacle back in '99 , Kansans voted those dimwits out and put in a new board that changed what the previous board had done . It just seems that some people have a very short memory . Why must these XXXXXX stain Kansas again ?"
"I think what people fail to realise is that the state school board in kansas does nto have the same power as school boards in other states . In ks , our state schoolboard is a buch of twits who seem to want to make life difficult for local schoolbord memebrs who have to field calls from parents concerned about the action of the state board , and they have to be continually assured that it will not have any effect on their childs education at a local level ..... nobody actually reads that * * * * anyway . You can point the following facts out to those who tell us we are XXXXXX in kansas who do not know how to run our schools : ACT Scores : Kansas has the 8th highest national scores ; the highest combination of scores and percentage of students tested . ( 2000 scores ) SAT Scores : Kansas has the 5th highest scores nationally . ( 1998 scores ) NAEP Reading Scores : National Assessment of Education Progress . Only one state had a higher average score and percentage of students at or above proficient level than Kansas for fourth grade ; only two states scored higher at eighth grade . There is a lot of stuff that pandion is saying `` you do n't learn in high school `` that my teachers tell me they are teaching . Then again , we also rank first when it comes to introducing college level curriculum to in our high schools . Maybe that is another reason that this is an issue brought up in kansas . Besides the fact that it is incredibly easy to get somethign in front of the school borad , the fact that we are covering more adcvanced curriculum might make this an isse . Youw ne tot the shawnee mission school district , which was THE highest ranked distict int he coutnry for 18 years running . Maybe we should mirror the KCMO school district , then there would not be these debates in Ks . I know a teacher in kansas city missouri ( a biology teacher no less ) who essentially says the same thing that pandion does .... that they do not teach these things in high school . If we turned out dumber kids , and wrenched control away fro local schoolboards and parents , we could probably turn out kids that are as dumbn as california kids , or illinois kids , or maybe , with the addition of mandatory labotomies , we could turn out kids as dumb as washington DC kids . THEN , we would not have such debates , . I do n't know that they are as small a minority as you are trying to say here , but even if they were , they are in a position of power . So the media is n't blowing this out of proportion . It does n't matter if a group is a minority if they are in power . Should Iraq have not been in the news before the war because the minority was in power there ? A crude anology I know , but you get the point . [ /quote ]"
"there was only one person on the ticket and if there were more , they probably all held the same views on evolution"
"THE highest ranked distict int he coutnry for 18 years running ."