Public | 9-12 | 1027 students |
PHONE: (717) 292-3671
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n October 2004 Dover Area School District changed its biology teaching curriculum to require that intelligent design was to be presented as an alternative to evolution theory, with Of Pandas and People to be used as a reference book. The plaintiffs successfully argued that intelligent design is a form of creationism, and that the school board policy violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling concluded that intelligent design is not science, and permanently barred the board from "maintaining the ID Policy in any school within the Dover Area School District, from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID. "The eight Dover school board members who voted for the intelligent design requirement were all defeated in a November 8, 2005 election by challengers who opposed the teaching of intelligent design in a science class, and the school board president stated that the board did not intend to appeal the ruling.
This school has a wonderful extracurricular program, but the academics are not all that good. Some of the teachers I have had do not know anything about their subject. The social environment is okay as long as you are invisible and let the popular kids rule.
This school is an bad school with an bad way of doing things . I am an student now at Dover and the school has no money and nothing to help you with your career !
I graduated from this school last year and it had a great program, and the teachers are great. I didn't have any problems, and they taught me alot, and got me to graduation sucessfully.
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