Don't teach theory as if it is a fact

At Huntley High on the second day of school, our children who are most vulnerable and impressionable are being taught in their world history books as a fact that evolution is how they originated.

It's referred to as knowledge based on good science. Most of this "good science" has been discredited. One man's creative theory is what our children are being taught. Evolution: we've bought it because they said it's true, but we've only been taught half of it.

To tell half the truth is a lie. By leaving out creation and other theories, children lose their basic principles of freedom and their human rights to decide for themselves. By presenting evolution as a fact, schools may be inflicting irreparable harm to our children.

Evolution should not be taught as a fact as it has never been. It is simply a theory.

Parents place their trust in schools to teach their children facts. When the schools teach the theories as facts, it breaks that trust.

I would like Huntley High School to consider getting some less biased text books for our children … one that teaches that no one actually knows how humans were created. We only have theories.

Lisa L. Szatkowski

Huntley