U.S. election update

[Gurnsey]

At least in local politics, people have realized that it's not all that tough to get a seat on the school board.  There's usually not that much interest in running for school board, and a lot less people pay attention to the school board race than they do to the presidential campaign.

In recent Oregon school board campaigns, we've seen quite a few candidates with fairly extreme views on a variety of issues (and the intent of writing their extreme points of view into district policy).  As a result, it seems like people are becoming more careful with the questions they ask candidates during school board campaigns.  So, this tactic might end up helping to create a more informed electorate in the end, without changing how topics such as evolution or homosexuality are approached by the schools.
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Speaking of Oregon (Portland in specific) schools...ugh. I live right across the river and wow, what a mess it looks like from over here. 'Schools are sying that need more money, but let's pay a ton of administrators 6-digit salaries to find out why we spend so much money!'

Though I can't say that I'm much happier living in Washington, with our fake governor's 'count ballots until I win' tactics...and then to say that there is a lot of voter fraud going on but 'let's do something about it next time, but forget this last election'.

Blah, I sound like such a whiner.

I heard that there are several states in the US where it is not legal to teach evolution theory on schools.
As always I probably will be half wrong-half right.
Anyway, seems quite shocking to me. But what has the national government to say about this?

I don't think the national government should have anything to say about this. Though I think the results will be positive, I'm not too happy about the money they are throwing at standardized testing either. As for religious views vs. schools:

I went to elementary school in a town that was primarily Jehovah's Witness. Let me tell you, that was odd. No birthday or holiday celebrations of any kind allowed! No cupcakes, no mention, no nothing, and be really careful handing out invitations to a party.

Looking back on it, what I approve of in this situation is that there was nothing written into the local district about these matters or regarding any views on creationism vs. evolution (forgive me, any Jehovah's Witnesses out there, if I get this wrong, but they are not fundimentalists nor do they believe in strict creationism or evolution, but the views on this are...interesting). Far from a matter for the federal government to handle, this was not even a matter for state or even local government - it was taken care of by parents, students, and teachers. Perhaps this only worked as it was a small town...ah well.
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