After a federal judge in January “found the stickers to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and ordered their removal,” the Cobb County, Ga. school system has hired 14 temp workers “at $10 an hour to scrape evolution disclaimer stickers from thousands of middle and high school science textbooks.” Photo below fold:
CAPTION: Stickers that say evolution is a theory, not a fact, were being cut out of Cobb County textbooks Monday. A judge ordered the removal, ruling the stickers had an implicit religious message. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 24, 2005
“The stickers were an attempt to bridge the gap between what we had and what we were going to have,” said Stickel. Cobb now has a policy requiring teaching of evolution. “I feel very good about our policy.”
The previous policy urged that evolution not be taught because it could be “inconsistent with family teachings.” The school district as recently as 10 years ago cut out from science textbooks pages that involved evolution, according to court testimony.