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Worldwide Media Coverage for
Frazier Mountain High School

Jan. 20, 2006 issue

Web surfers last week could see banner headlines from across the country and around the world reporting about events at Frazier Mountain High School. An elective month-long course called “Philosophy of Design” was offered during intersession, just two weeks after a federal court had ruled that Bible-based “intelligent design” (ID) could not be taught as a parallel to evolution in a public school biology class.

The legal team that won the Dover, Pennsylvania verdict joined with 11 FMHS parents to seek a restraining order to stop the course which had been authorized in a 3-2 vote by El Tejon Unified School District trustees during an extraordinary Sunday, Jan. 1 meeting. On Friday, Jan. 13, an attorney for the activist Discovery Institute which promotes “intelligent design”—flew in from Seattle to ask the ETUSD trustees to withdraw the class and to not go to court. [Read Casey Luskin's statement]

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