We have taken a lot of heat here in Kansas because of six people who have controlled the State Board of Education the past few years. Their actions have included removing the teaching of evolution in the schools and the teaching of abstinence as the sole method of sex education.
Kansas voters took care of this problem yesterday. Read more in the Lawrence Journal World and the Kansas City Star.
Kansas has always been such a progressive state in so many ways and yet our reputation in the past few years has been denigrated because of a handful of individuals. This is one of those moments that restores your faith in our electoral process.
Congratulations to Kansas... hopefully now we can move to overcome the previous ridicule on the international front.
Posted by: Andrea Weckerle | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 07:59 AM
Just so we keep it up this time and not let those numnuts back in the saddle again
Posted by: Swede Swenson | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 08:24 AM
It can be said that the electorate gets what it deserves sometimes, but I cannot imagine that the children of Kansas deserve the State Board of Education that we have had for the past several years. Amen, to taking back this institution from the ultra-conservative numnuts (as Dad put it) and let's hope the moderates, be they Democrat or Republican, are taking back our State!
Posted by: Debbie Beam | Friday, August 04, 2006 at 09:46 PM
Excellent point Sis. The kids do not deserve what has happened. Hopefully, we are back on track.
Posted by: Mike Swenson | Friday, August 04, 2006 at 10:04 PM