May 13, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 5
…I once had an interaction with my high school physics teacher that has stuck with me ever since. Dur- ing one of the weekly chats we’d have in her classroom after school, I won- dered out loud why neither evolution nor the Big Bang theory were covered in the biology or physics curricula. My teacher explained to me that being in a town drenched in parochial ideol- ogy, there was a don’t ask, don’t tell policy covering the teaching of...…