How did POSH get started?
In January of 1999, Ellen Barber found that her kindergarten son in Pinckney was being taught evolutionary ideas. She asked the teacher how they taught kindergarteners the idea of a theory – a difficult concept for that age. She was told that they don’t teach evolution as a theory, but as a fact. Thinking this was strange, Ellen contacted the coordinator of the Science Department. From Lynda Allen it was confirmed that evolutionary ideas were taught as fact in grades K-12 in Lawrence and no other theories or information that may question evolution were allowed to be presented in the classroom by the teacher or visiting teachers.
