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Teaching Contracts

Teaching Contracts

Teaching Contracts I often hear teachers complain that employers issue contracts and then ask them to do more than the contract requires. From the other side of the fence, employers sometimes feel that teachers are too rigid in their interpretation of the terms of the contract. It is certainly a tricky area, so what can you do to make sure that the contract offers proper protection for both teachers and the employer? My suggestions are as follows: The first point to consider is your own attitude to the contract. It is a document that binds both parties, so as employers...

John Scopes and the Teaching of Evolution

John Scopes and the Teaching of Evolution

John Scopes and the Teaching of Evolution In the mid-1920s, many young Americans flaunted long-established Victorian culture. Women were voting, illegal booze was flowing through speakeasies, and art had become abstract. Traditionalists in the South responded with a wave of religious revivalism. Journalists seized upon one particular court trial in Tennessee, for it exemplified this struggle between religious tradition and modernity. Who would win? In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher named John Scopes stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee. He was charged with violating the state’s “Butler law”, which forbade teaching the theory of evolution. Scopes’ personal...