Who gets to decide what students learn?
Tennessee State Senator Bo Watson has introduced legislation to allow public schools to deny enrollment to undocumented children, setting up a challenge of the 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler vs Doe.
Who should decide who our students are and what they should learn? Who should be running our schools? Politicians, teachers or parents?
That’s a question the nation is debating today, and that question was one of the core arguments debated during the 1925 Scopes Trial.
Visit the Scopes Trial Play & Festivities July 11-19, at the Rhea County Courthouse to see where this debate started 100 years ago. For more information and tickets, check out scopes100.com.
May 1, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYAfter a “good though hardly remarkable first year,” John Scopes’s contract ends at RCHS, but he stays in town to help two students injur...
April 28, 1925 THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYOn this day in 1925, John T. Scopes gave an exam to his biology class that included no questions about the process of evolution, but did...
Scopes Trial Play cast get-together scheduledThe Scopes Trial Play will host a cast/recruitment party on Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in the Rhea County Heritage & Scopes Trial Museum...
Rhea Heritage sponsors first Scopes Festival debateTwo Bryan College students debated the value of school choice April 17 in the same courtroom where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence D...
Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in DaytonRead More
Jul 11, 2025
7:00 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
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Jul 12, 2025
2:00 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
