What a small-minded failure it is encourage his resignation simply because he wants the teachers to be able and prepared to tackle the kinds of questions students would ask where they see science engaging their personal lives.

Culturally relevant or not, it has no place in science. Teachers are already prepared to tackle such questions, because they can simply say “That is not science”. Mr Reiss was advocating a more detailed explanation of Creationism, which is not needed.

The aim of teaching science should be not only to teach the specific details of a field, but to teach the purpose and practice and the application to the real world. Of COURSE your science professors should be able to teach the students how to discriminate between true and false science, rather than expecting them to take it on faith. One of the very fundamentals of science is being able to disprove a false belief.

I’d also expect them to be able to show why astrology is not a science.

What a small-minded failure it is encourage his resignation simply because he wants the teachers to be able and prepared to tackle the kinds of questions students would ask where they see science engaging their personal lives. It smells of a petty vindictiveness to religion, rather than a true desire to see children educated.