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katerina · 04-18-2002, 11:15 PM

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Originally posted by RufusAtticus:
<strong>Question:
Does anyone here even think that the student should be docked points for her disclaimer?

As far as I can tell, there is no debate here as to what grade she should get.

-RvFvS</strong>

Nope. You can't dock points for her disclaimer.

There is a not of non-gradable teaching that goes on in the class-room. The attitude issue is worth adressing, and that is why people are distinguishing between the grade you give on the test and the responsibility as a teacher to address the attitude issue.

Skydancer · 04-19-2002, 06:40 AM

Political axioms are quite testable. They have extremely unfortunate side-effects if they fail, however, since they are usually being tested on entire countries. Thus the Soviet Union, Burma, Iraq, etc.....

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Originally posted by RufusAtticus:
<strong>leonarde,

You appear to be confusing politics/philosophy with science. They are not equivalent and your analogy is flawed.

When it comes to evolution, many people think it is acceptable for someone to not believe in it. This of course is a major problem, since it is the grand unifying theory of biology. Education has been kowtowing too long to the ill-educated political movement of anti-evolution. Surely the vast majority of people consider heliocentricism and flat-earthism as unreasonable world views.

The same scientific methods that are used to determine the shape of the world are also used to determine the existance of evolution and universal common descent. Anti-evolution worldviews are just as unreasonable as anti-round-earth worldviews. Both are undeniable facts about reality.

This is not the same as political or philsophical positions which are derived from untestable axioms and social concensus.

-RvFvS</strong>

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