Texas creationists lose!

[Igel]

17. Of course. It wasn't a question.

It was a worry, but only to those that pay attention for about five minutes every few years but like being outraged.

The fundies speak--mostly because compelling silence would be the state forcing somebody not to speak when they have a right to speak. But they're pretty much mostly ignored by everybody else.

The backing down from some of the testing and other graduation requirements is more problematic. But since most would celebrate abandoning Common Core and being able to say, "We don't need no testing--all teachers like teaching to the standards and keeping the rigor of the standards that they've agreed to teach!" that's not likely to be viewed as a problem.

Except that those people will be concerned when these things aren't taught. Technology supports the other cultures. Too many kids already regard a lot of technology as a kind of magic. This leads to inanities in what they think and what they do. And leads to additional stupidities when they're asked to participate in making informed judgments, political or otherwise, in a technologically advanced age.