Was the outcry about the Smith-Cotton High School bands T-shirts appropriate?
COLUMBIA — Last week, as many high school football programs began their season, so did many high school band programs. But one band possibly faced more controversy than the rest when Sedalia’s Smith-Cotton band program T-shirts were recalled because of their evolution theme. Each shirt features a monkey progressing through stages of evolution until becoming a human, and a brass instrument also goes through certain stages of evolution. Because this depicted a belief of evolution at a public school, some parents responded upset that the concept of evolution was associated with the school, according to an Associated Press article.
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- Was the outcry about the Smith-Cotton High School bands T-shirts appropriate?
