My ds is a sophomore at a boys' Catholic high school. He is in a regular, non-honors biology class. Today he informed us us that his class has spent the last two class periods watching "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". This pseudo-documentary features the actor Ben Stein and focuses on science professors who have been expelled from academia for teaching intelligent design. It also conflates evolution and social darwinism/eugenics, and talks about the purported links between evolutionary scientists/atheism/ Nazism ( I think communism gets thrown in there, too).
My husband and I are very upset, but before we approach the school, we have been trying to find out if this is typical at most Catholic schools. I don't think it is, and from my internet research it doesn't appear the church is against the idea of evolution. If anyone has had similar experiences, I would welcome advice and feedback.
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