I'm not sure if this article has been posted anywhere else on the forum,
I popped it onto the general bit on Friday. Not sure whether to be pleased that it'll upset creationists or take on board the difficulties of policing it when you've handed over the reins to creationist loons in the first place.
On balance the free school idea is soooo stoooopid that even creationists will be able to find ways around it unless the penalties are very harsh. Immediate withdrawal of funding and a requirement to pay back every single piece of state funding ever recieved is what I'd like to see. But won't.
You can teach evolution accurately in a science lesson and then counter it by teaching ID and YEC possibly within science classes and then more strongly in RE and the school ethos
Which remains the problem whenever you deliberately and without thinking hand over education to ideologically driven idiots and lunatics.
