I am surprised - that they admit to it in a survey, not that they do it.
If you teach in a small place where one and all believe in that old time religion, including your principal and the sheriff, of course you don't lose all your friends and perhaps your job just to teach some heathen crap you don't even believe in.
Now, telling it to some nosy stranger is another thing entirely.
My mother, a diehard creationist who taught 4th grade, simply refused to teach science at all rather than teach the Big Bang theory or evolution. But she also respected the law in the state of Texas, which said you had to teach those things, so she took math and history and English while another teacher took science and social studies.
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Date: 2008-05-20 04:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-20 04:26 pm (UTC)If you teach in a small place where one and all believe in that old time religion, including your principal and the sheriff, of course you don't lose all your friends and perhaps your job just to teach some heathen crap you don't even believe in.
Now, telling it to some nosy stranger is another thing entirely.
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Date: 2008-05-20 04:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-20 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-20 07:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-20 07:27 pm (UTC)SCIENCE teachers. You're doing it wrong.
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Date: 2008-05-20 11:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-21 01:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-21 01:58 pm (UTC)This, of course, is like being the fastest runner in the special olympics, but it's a start.
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Date: 2008-05-20 09:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-21 02:10 am (UTC)ugh.
I weep for our children and the trend of 'science teachers' today
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Date: 2008-05-21 01:50 pm (UTC)