How to not improve your state’s education system

Creationist Sylvia Allen to lead Arizona Senate education panel

Oy.

 During a legislative hearing in 2009, she said the Earth is 6,000 years old, a belief held by “Young Earth” biblical creationists. In 2013, a Facebook post about chem-trail conspiracies gained widespread media attention, as did a March comment suggesting mandatory church attendance.

Oy.

She has been appointed chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee, where she will be positioned to control which legislative education proposals go forward.

It’s weird how many utterly wrong people wind up in positions of political power. Here’s a woman who is seemingly opposed to logic and knowledge, and she’s in charge of education. Socialists wind up in charge of the economy. Bureaucrats end up in charge of regualting new industries. It’s perverse.