Ohio still trying to push creation smh

**Blake** · 08-13-2013

SPRINGBORO*– A school district in Ohio might seek legal help from religious liberty groups as the district considers implementing education policies to facilitate debates on controversial subjects such as evolution and abortion.As previously reported, the Springboro Board of Education in southwestern Ohio recently received national attention for proposing policy changes that would facilitate open debates about several “hot topics” in the classroom. On May 23rd, the ACLU sent the board president a 3-page*letter, urging school administrators to drop the “uncons utional” policy amendments.In late May, board vice president Jim Rigano told ABC affiliate*WKEF-TV*that the proposed revisions would create a beneficial, balanced education environment.“

We don’t want to be indoctrinating students to any particular point of view, we want to make sure all things are taught in a fair and balanced way,” he explained. “We want them to be able to think through [the controversial issues] and ultimately be able to make a good argument.”

Since the initial kerfuffle earlier this summer, Springboro Board of Education members have remained fairly quiet about the policy controversy. Last week, however, the left-wing blog*Plunderbund*leaked do ents showing that board members are considering help from legal organizations in defending the proposed revisions.

One such do ent is an*email*supposedly sent from Rigano to Rita Dunaway. Dunaway is the vice president for public policy of the Virginia Christian Alliance (VCA)—an organization dedicated to “promot[ing] moral, social and scientific issues we face today from a Biblical point of view.”“The inclusion of the word ‘creation’ [in the revised policies] has set off the ACLU and their allies,” Rigano wrote in the email, “although we intend the word in a larger sense to mean the origin of the universe, earth and man. They, of course, have threatened us citing a long list of legal cases. However, at this point our board is willing to take on the issue.”

http://christiannews.net/2013/08/13/...on-in-schools/