‘Evolution’ – Not found

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When I get free time. I get my phone and browse ‘9gag’ for fun. Now, when I was scrolling down to it, the post of “9gaggers” was all about ‘Turkey banning evolution to their curriculum’, ‘why study of evolution was deemed hard to understand’, ‘why do the president of Turkey is so dumb’, and other things about evolution and Charles Darwin.  Now it intrigued me, and got my researcher-like personality mode on. So I searched the web about banning the study of evolution in turkey, I also searched why it was banned, who banned it, and what are the response of the people in turkey. when I searched it, turkey really stop teaching evolution at high school.

These are the example headlines that I saw when searching on the web:

  • “Turkey to stop teaching evolution in high school”
  • “In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall”
  • “Turkey to stop teaching evolution theory in high schools: education board”
  • “Turkey drops theory of evolution from national curriculum as children go back to school”
  • “Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says”

The stopping of evolution theory teaching has taken effect this SY 2017-2018 in Turkey. The word ‘Evolution’ will not be found on books of grade schools in Turkey. “We believe that these subjects are beyond their (the students) comprehension” Alpaslan Durmus said it according to ‘theguardian’ site, he is the chairman of the board of education and for the Education Minister, Ismet Yilmaz, he said to the reporters that Evolutionary biology is best left to be taught at the university level because it’s a theory that requires a higher philosophical understanding than schoolchildren have. This is according to the article “In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall” in the site ‘npr.org’

Reading this article about stopping/dropping the evolution in their curriculum got me thinking why they are dumb. And to drop a certain topic just because it is ‘controversial’ to people? Again, dumb. As I continue reading articles, I found out that a lot of Turkish people also disapprove on the curriculum that they introduced to the public. A retired chemical engineer named Emel Ishakoglu, don’t like the idea of the new curriculum, she said that she is worried about her grandchildren, but hoping the curriculum will change in time. Another citizen of Turkey, the Demir family says that they will leave turkey before their son reaches grade school, just because of the new curriculum.

Many people were affected by this new curriculum and many has thoughts about this. Even people from different countries has something to say in this news, some has pity over the country, some infuriated, and some just don’t care. But again for me it’s just sad that they won’t know who Charles Darwin is, and students who didn’t learn the evolution theory from high school will look stupid if decided to study in different universities.

 

REFERENCES:

“Turkey to stop teaching evolution in high school”

  • Tuysuz,, Gul. “Turkey to stop teaching evolution in high school.” CNN, 23 June 2017, edition.cnn.com/2017/06/23/middleeast/turkey-to-stop-teaching-evolution/index.html.

“In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall”

“Turkey to stop teaching evolution theory in high schools: education board”

“Turkey drops theory of evolution from national curriculum as children go back to school”

“Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says.”

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