At the risk of un-cool-ing the thread…

Why’s George Clayton, of North Dallas High, Running for State Board of Ed? Because It Needs “An Educator,” Dang It.

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After a couple of weeks playing phone tag, Unfair Park finally managed to connect with George M. Clayton, the District 12 State Board of Education candidate opposing incumbent Geraldine “Tincy” Miller in Tuesday’s GOP primary. Clayton has been something of a mystery man to the Republican Party folk and state board watchers we’ve spoken with, and we wanted to ask him why he’s running. […]

Unfair Park tried to pin Clayton down on where he stood on the GOP conservative spectrum — using a form of reportorial shorthand. We asked him how old the Earth is, figuring anything in the 10,000-year range would peg him as a religious conservative.

“I’m not going to cut it half and count the rings,” Clayton replied cannily.

OK, slippery answer. (Also wrong, but never mind.) We tried again: Should evolution be taught in science classrooms?

Clayton said evolution is and should remain in science classrooms, but he thinks the alternative theories supported by the religious right — intelligent design and creationism — can “find a real nice home” in humanities, philosophy or world history classes.

“It’s seems to me you can’t be taught the one [evolution] without the other [creationism],” Clayton said. “It’s an impossibility to talk about evolution without mentioning creationism.”

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TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!