30 years ago today - Mar 9, 1987
TIME magazine reports that Arizona Governor Evan Mecham's education advisor is a retired, conservative dairy farmer, who encouraged the State Education Committee to favor a bill requiring that creationism be taught alongside evolution in public schools. He is widely quoted for saying that teachers have "no business correcting students whose parents teach them the earth is flat"
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