Here's my two cents. Personally, I would rather have students come away from high school with a positive feeling for science and I think that they might be achieved more readily by teaching ecology and evolution than teaching the Krebs cycle and cell metabolism (not to denigrate those topics). I think it might be easier for a student to see the idea of hypothesis and hypothesis testing in ecology than in the normal science course. The fact that ecology can also be taught from a quantitative viewpoint could also mesh well with the math the student is taking in other hs classes and perhaps math teacher and biology teacher could work together such as they often do at the middle school level.
In any case, the fact that the teacher lacks a Ph.D. is not really germane to the teaching of ecology or any science at the hs level. If that were true the teacher would need a Ph.D. to teach the Krebs cycle and other topics. Larry -- Larry T. Spencer, Professor Emeritus of Biology Plymouth State University ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
