Expensive Creationist Stickers

Four years ago, Cobb County Georgia school officials had placed inside

35,000 textbooks stickers that read "Evolution is a theory not a fact".

The lawsuit by opposing parents has finally ended. The judge ordered the

stickers removed last year and school officials had them scraped off, but
appealed. Terms of the recent settlement include no altering of the evolution
material and $166,659.00 payment toward attorneys fees by the school
system.

I cannot help thinking how enriched the school libraries would have been

if the $166,659.00 could have been spent on books. And it's shocking that
books were defaced by those who tell children not to deface books.

Below are the ending paragraphs of the article as printed in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, or read the whole thing (you may have to sign in).

"They were trying to do the right thing," said Taylor, a parent of three Cobb
students. "It's terrorist organizations like the ACLU that are hijacking our
country's educational system by imposing their own secular agenda on the
rest of us."

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church
and State in Washington, D.C., hailed the case's conclusion.

"Students should be taught sound science, and the curriculum should not be
altered at the behest of aggressive religious groups," Lynn said. "Cobb County
school officials have taken the right step to ensure that their students receive a
quality education."

Incoming school board member John Crooks, a Baptist minister who opposed
the stickers, said he was pleased the board reached a settlement.

"Moving on to more important educational matters is essential," he said.