Re:Should ‘Race’ Be Taught in High School Biology?
by grawprog on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:52PM
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I don't really remember exactly what we covered in high school. I'm not sure if we ever got into race specifically but we definitely got into genetic traits and phenotypes. We definitely went over Mendel's pea experiments and talked about human physical characteristics. I'm honestly not sure if we really got into race in a classical Victorian sense though.
I don't really like the term race anyway. It's not a proper biological classification and really shouldn't be taught in biology. We're all the same species with a good amount of genetic variation that comes from lots of things. Teaching anything about race in a science class seems unscientific to me.
I don't really like the term race anyway. It's not a proper biological classification and really shouldn't be taught in biology. We're all the same species with a good amount of genetic variation that comes from lots of things. Teaching anything about race in a science class seems unscientific to me.