Frazier Mountain High School

Frazier Mountain High School is a public high school in Lebec, California and is part of the El Tejon Unified School District. [cite news | url=http://falcon.el-tejon.k12.ca.us/ | title=Information | publisher=Frazier Mountain High School |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] The schools mascot is the Falcons and has football, volleyball, basketball, and baseball teams.

In 2001, NASA awarded the school a sponsorship to compete in a robotics competition. [cite news | url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2001/release_2001_231.html | title=NASA Sponsorships Awarded to High School Students | publisher=NASA |date= November 29, 2001 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Then in 2004 it won a robotics competition in Southern California. [cite news | url=http://www2.usfirst.org/2004comp/events/CA/Awards.html | title=2004 FIRST Robotics Competition Southern California Regional Award Winners | publisher=NASA |date= November 29, 2001 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]

In 2006, it received national attention in the case "Hurst et al. v. Newman et al." when eleven parents sued the district for intersession course on "The Philosophy of Design."cite news | url=http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2006/CA/642_settlement_in_emhurst_v_new_1_17_2006.asp | title=Settlement in Hurst v. Newman | publisher=National Center for Science Education |date= January 17, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] The class, taught by Sharon Lemburg, who is married to an Assembly of God pastor was criticized for bring intelligent design creationism into the class. [cite news | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/10/state/n160010S80.DTL | title=California high school sued over class discussing 'intelligent design' | publisher=Associated Press |date= January 10, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Lemburg was accused by Ken Hurst, one of the parents who filed the lawsuit and is a PhD at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for falsely including him and Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick (who had been dead for two years) as lecturers on the syllabus presented to the Board of Trustees. [cite news | url=http://www.mountainenterprise.com/IntellDesign-stories/051230-False_Info.html | title=False Information on Intelligent Design Course Given to Board | publisher=Mountain Enterprise |date= Dec. 30, 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] The lawsuit was settled out of court when the school district agreed no school "shall offer, presently or in the future, the course entitled 'Philosophy of Design' or 'Philosophy of Intelligent Design' or any other course that promotes or endorses creationism, creation science, or intelligent design."

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* [http://falcon.el-tejon.k12.ca.us/ Frazier Mountain High School] – Official website
* [http://www2.ncseweb.org/wp/?page_id=111 "Hurst et al. v. Newman" documents] from National Center for Science Education