Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools

“To stimulate interest in math and science among students in the public schools of this state, the State Board of Education shall prescribe minimum standards by which samples of grade-appropriate science fiction literature are integrated into the curriculum of existing reading, literature or other required courses for middle school and high school students.”

About.

F’n.

Time.

This is a *really* good idea. Rather than dreary, incomprehensible and culturally irrelevant dreck like Dickens and Bronte and whatnot, how about the likes of Heinlein or L. Neill Smith?

The author of the bill, one Ray Canterbury, is “not interested in fantasy novels about dragons,” but instead “in things where advanced technology is a key component of the storyline, both in terms of the problems that it presents and the solutions that it offers.”