The Side Effects of Endorphins

• Graduation requirements: To graduate from high school in Mississippi, students need to earn 3 credits in science, including at least 1 credit in biology I. 
• Science courses: Science courses in Mississippi high schools include biology. 
• Science standards: Science standards in Mississippi integrate math and English/language arts skills. Students are expected to analyze and present data, and to comprehend and critique information. 

That is what a quick search on the Inter webs says. Of course, common questions answers are usually AI generated

I am going to go out on a limb and refer to science in high school as artificial Intelligence. Some of the thinking coming out of high school these days belong in the Fiction section.

Mississippi was a random choice of mine. I see many of the same students I took chemistry, physics and other sciences as science skeptics. It can be any state., mostly the state of delusion

Hell, many people I grew up with think Puerto Rico is a distant country, but I digress.

Do high school students walk out of it biology class thinking evolution as a work of conjecture? This is in much the same way I regard The Pledge of Allegiance.

I am grumpy this morning.

Cheers