{"id":40524,"date":"2013-10-13T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_keeping_religion_separate_from_science_in_s-c-_schools\/"},"modified":"2013-10-13T21:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:36:31","slug":"local_paper_keeping_religion_separate_from_science_in_s-c-_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40524","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Keeping religion separate from science in S.C. schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millibeth Currie, a nationally board-certified teacher who chairs the science department at Moultrie Middle School, was involved in the first phase of the standards review this go-round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience is everywhere. It\u2019s explaining our system of our universe that exists right now,\u201d\u009d which means a student\u2019s family background or philosophy or religion doesn\u2019t even factor into the equation.<\/p>\n<p>When religious concerns are raised, \u201cI kind of neutralize it. There\u2019s no way of being able to answer who\u2019s right or who\u2019s wrong\u201d\u009d among different religions, she said. \u201cThe focus should be on discovering the commonalities in our universe.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131013\/PC1610\/131019799\/1177\/keeping-religion-separate-from-science-in-sc-schools\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millibeth Currie, a nationally board-certified teacher who chairs the science department at Moultrie Middle School, was involved in the first phase of the standards review this go-round. \u201cScience is everywhere. It\u2019s explaining our system of our universe that exists right<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40524\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,111,117,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}