Guerrillas in Our Midst

Your LakeCountyEye takes pride in being unable to resist any opportunity at taking target practice against the low-hanging-fruits. Lately these low-hanging-fruits have been falling from an apple tree in the Garden of Eden, where your LakeCountyEye has been aiming potshots at the looney-toon creationists who are hell-bent on packing the local school boards with their proxies.

It's no secret that Lake County schools are on the cusp of being retooled to teach pseudosciences like creationism (and God knows what else). That story was covered on this blog here ...

Creating a Stir

and here ...

Schismisms

But your LakeCountyEye has the sad responsibility to report that two more County High Schools may become academic casualties of the culture wars. As reported in the Daily Herald ...

At a few recent meetings Stevenson High School board members have heard from parents who object to selections on student reading lists and want to be more involved in choosing what their kids read. Although publicly appreciative of the parents’ interest in the curriculum, the board rejected a request for the creation of a parental committee that would review and approve curriculum choices.
Dist. 125 candidates differ on parental involvement with curriculum

Three (of seven) school board candidates running for four seats are sympathetic to the idea that the parents deserve input into curricula decisions at Stevenson High School. Currently some parents are objecting to a few English reading assignments there. Your LakeCountyEye predicts that with a cooperative board writing the rules, there will soon be parents objecting to Evolution being taught.

While Stevenson bears watching, an adjacent High School may be on the endangered list. According to the Daily Herald ...

All four candidates for the Lake Zurich Unit District 95 school board believe creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science classes. One, Chris Wallace, went so far as to say creationism is fact and evolution is just a theory.
All four Dist. 95 candidates back teaching creationism in science classes

With the local high-schools soon to become academic Hootervilles, so to speak, what can a prudent parent do? Your LakeCountyEye suggests investigating the schools in places like Bangalore and Beijing, where they approach the task of educating their children with the seriousness it deserves.