Tribune Editorial: Don’t make schools needlessly debate good science

In this July 1925 file photo, Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the monkey trial in Dayton, Tenn. On Friday, July 13, 2017, at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, the public will behold a 10-foot statue of the rumpled skeptic Darrow, who argued for evolution in the 1925 trial. It will stand at a respectful distance on the opposite side of the courthouse from an equally huge statue of Bryan, the eloquent Christian defender of the biblical account of creation, which was installed in 2005. (AP Photo, File) It’s time to update science education standards, and that means another burst of hysteria. We were here just a couple of years ago with middle schools, and now we’re back again for elementary and high school standards.

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