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Creationists come up with a idea for biology classes
William Buckingham and Alan Donsell they were creationist and members of the Dover school board. They made suggestions and statements of teaching creationism with evolution in the biology classes. They called it the Intelligent Design and the wanted to get a textbook "Of Pandas and People" for the biology classes. -
Dover School Board selects textbook for Biology classes.
June 7, 2004:
Dover School Board selects textbook for Biology classes.
The Dover school board started to select the textbooks for the biology classes. The school board selected to use "The Living Science" by Kenneth Miller and Joseph Levine as a textbook. William Buckingham had suggest to the Dover school board to watch the "Icons of Evolution" dvd.
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Dover School Board selects a textbook.
The Dover school board had voted, 5-3 as a result for to use Biology: The Living Science by Kenneth Miller and Joseph Levine. The textbook was recommended to the teachers to use in their biology classes. -
Of Pandas and People donated to Dover school board.
There was 50-60 copies made of the Intelligent Design Book "Of Pandas and People" that was donated anonymously to the Dover school board. The school board had voted to use the Intelligent Design as a curriculum policy. There was two members of the board the had protested against it. -
Teachers are required to read a disclaimer to ninth grade Biology
The board announced that teachers would be required to read a disclaimer to ninth grade biology classes. Dover board members had to explain their new policy and why they were changing it. Teachers were required to teach intelligent design in the biology classes. They were taught evolution theories, but they changed it because they thought it needed to be taught. -
Parents of students at Dover area school district filed suit against the board.
Eleven parents of ninth grade students filed suit against the board, arguing that the promotion of intelligent design is an unconstitutional promotion of religion. -
DASD writes the letter of complaints for trials.
Dover Area School District had filed answers to the complaint letters they had gotten from the parents of students. They wrote a letter to the parents talking about the biology curriculum. -
School board wrote newsletter about the change.
The Dover school board sent parents and students a newsletter about the Biology switch. Some witnesses gave out some of the statements in the newsletter. -
Foundation gave “Thought and Ethics Files.”
A foundation had gave out some "Thought and Ethics files" for the actions that had been intervene. -
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