Paved with good intentions

Kansas continues down the road to complete ignorance.

The board is sending its drafted standards to a Denver-based education consultant before a final vote, planned for either September or October.

I've done a few searches and cannot find the name of this "education" consultant.  If any of you have better information, I would really like to read up on this company.

If they win final approval, Kansas will join Minnesota, Ohio and New Mexico, all of which have adopted critical analysis of evolution in the last four years.

The new science standards would not eliminate the teaching of evolution entirely, nor would they require that religious views, also known as creationism, be taught, but it would encourage teachers to discuss various viewpoints and eliminate core evolution theory as required curriculum.

Critics say the moves are part of a continuing national effort by conservative Christians to push their views into the public education process.

How does the Kansas board justify making decisions regarding the teaching of science to children?  The article describes these people as:

conservative Christian board members who say evolution is largely unproven and can undermine religious teachings about the origins of life on earth

Oh, I see.  Well that gives you all the authority in the world I suppose.  I guess your job is to make sure that children are not exposed to any scientific ideas that may disagree with Judeo-Christian religious doctrine.  Better cut out all the astronomy classes, since astronomy discusses the origin of the universe in a slightly different manner than does King James. 

Oh, and get rid of archaeology, of course!  That subject is about as subversive as they come!