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100 years after John Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution, education is again on trial

Posted 7/10/25

Today I’m remembering what Lela Scopes told me about her famous brother for my Paducah Sun story going on 46 years ago. She said before John Thomas Scopes left to teach science and coach football at Rhea County High School in Dayton, Tenn., in 1924, he explained, “I’m going there because it’s a small town […]

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