In our November, 1999 News in Brief (p. 26) we carried the story of a Catholic board in B.C. which censored a science textbook which presented a deficient view of the human person. Here, our contributing editor, Dr. John Shea, and Rado Krevs, science teacher, take a critical look at a couple of science textbooks used by the Toronto Catholic school board. They wanted to see if these texts upheld, implicitly or expicitly, the Catholic understanding of man and his world.
It is of fundamental importance that all subjects in a Catholic high school be taught in the context of the Catholic faith. This became evident in July, 1999, when two textbooks on Science for Grade 9 were offered to high schools. One is Science Power 9 (published by McGraw Hill) and the other Science 9 (published by Nelson). Their chapters on sexual biology present a challenge (chapters 2 to 4 in Science Power 9, and …
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