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Utah Science Standards: The Forced Re-Education of Your Child and What You Should Do about it

The Utah State Science Standard Draft for grades K-5 and 9-12 are out for a 90-day public review.

What you need to do:

1. Attend the Science Standards Hearings (Jan 22 is the first Hearing Meeting) - We can also help you prepare and gain understanding (Issues with the draft - meetings).
2. Sign our petition.
3. Learn About the Survey, then go to the Survey Monkey Form.
4. Write letters and emails to the State Science Specialist: richard.scott@schools.utah.gov
5. Write letters and emails to your Board Member.

Why???

The proposed standards are simply a reformatting of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)^{1 2}. The NGSS is the science complement to Common Core³ and its further adoption will continue to negatively impact our youth and lead to moral degeneration. The current standards suffer from some of these same problems⁴, but these standards go further in indoctrinating our youth in areas that are contrary to many recent scientific discoveries and long held societal values. When it comes to the liberal agenda of global warming or Darwinian evolution, objectivity is gone and students are driven to predetermined and politically decided conclusions.

• Various Utah State Office of Education (USOE) staff pledged⁵ that we would not adopt a Common Core complement for science⁶. Which is what the Next Generation Science Standards are⁷.



• The standards are not devised to help students understand what the Darwinian theory of evolution is; they are intended to create a heart and soul devotee to the concept of molecules to man evolution⁸.



• Molecules to man evolution has not been demonstrated by science. Further, much scientific data contradicts the evolutionary premise^{9 10}.



• Global warming, likewise, is taught as an undisputed fact and not science.



• The standards further seek to take these concepts, so instilled into the students, to manipulate the future of society (social engineering).



• These standards lack the fundamental foundations of science philosophy, which is that all conclusions are tentative and are subject to further discovery¹¹.



• These standards spend so much time focusing on Darwinian evolution, global warming, and societal manipulation through their philosophy, that they lack true scientific rigor in many other areas ¹².



• The proposed standards confuse the "Standards" of science education with the "Methods" of science education. It is the methods of science education that they are using to "sell" the standards that they push to the State Board of Education, science teachers, and to the public. Effective teaching methods could be implemented without changes in the standards. Fusing the two needlessly creates an inflexibility in the standards and also allows those who desire to push political and anti-religious¹³ agendas into public school with a vehicle to do so.



• Now is the opportunity to insist that the State make significant changes to our science standards. There will be no better time than now.



• Significant changes must be made. However, even if changes are made, concerned parents must consider options of homeschooling or supplementing their children's education with solid science facts as well as reinforced religious concepts because these proposed standards (and parts of our current standards) are in contradiction to many current science findings, religious truth, and foundational values of our nation.

Please share this with your friends, and visit ScienceFreedom.org to post your support with us.

Before each public hearing we will be hold meetings to help you and your friends know what is being taught in the standards and some information challenging what they propose to teach.

See the meeting schedule

Contact Info
Ricky Scott
K-12 Science Education Specialist
Utah State Board of Education
richard.scott@schools.utah.gov
(801) 538-7808
250 E. 500 S.
P.O. Box 144200
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4200
Further contact info see ( click)

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