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27 Sep 2007 09:31 am
Quote for the Day
"I'm just a little bit shocked myself that a college in good standing would back up students who insist that people who have been through college and have a master’s degree, a couple actually, have to teach that there were such things as talking snakes or lose their job," - a community college instructor, Mr Bitterman (!), in Red Oak, Iowa, who says he was fired after he told his students that the story of Adam and Eve should not be interpreted literally.
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I Never Realized Community Colleges In Other States Took Their Cues From Kansass Board Of Education
Excerpt: Via Andrew Sullivan, the theocrats have scored another victory in their war against reasoned discussion of ideas:
Steve Bitterman, 60, said officials at Southwestern Community College sided with a handful of students who threatened legal action over hi...
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