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    Filed at 5:53 am under by dcobranchi

    Idiot of the Day:

    SISTERS — It was Kris Helphinstine’s first week teaching at Sisters High School, and he was hoping to encourage some critical thinking in his biology class.

    So while discussing evolution, he handed out an essay written by a prominent creationist and put together a PowerPoint presentation linking evolution to eugenics experiments practiced in Nazi Germany. That decision cost Helphinstine his job this week.

    “Critical thinking” is fundy crypto-speak for “Since we keep losing in the courts let’s try to sneak creationism into the biology classes.”

    Helphinstine won’t elaborate about his own beliefs, saying only that the goal of teachers is to present the facts while concealing their own biases… But when asked, the student said, Helphinstine “said he believed in parts of evolution, but that on the whole it was just ridiculous. There wasn’t enough proof, he said.”

    He claims not to have taught creationism, and he’s possibly even telling the truth. He just disparaged the only accepted scientific theory for the origin of species as “ridiculous,” cited Ken Ham as an authority, and linked evolutionary theory with Nazism.

    I’d say that’s evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

    2 Responses to “YOU DON’T GET TENURE YOUR FIRST WEEK”


    Comment by
    Nance Confer
    March 21st, 2007
    at 10:15 am

    How did he last this long? How did he ever get hired? Amazing.

    Nance


    Comment by
    COD
    March 21st, 2007
    at 10:45 am

    I think he was there 8 days.