Gary Wiecek
Gary Wiecek is the former Vice Principal of Emmanuel College and, later, King’s Academy. His current position is not known but is believed to be Vice Principal of Trinity College.
There is no doubt that Wiecek is a creationist. He is understood to be a geography teacher. He is author of The Teaching of Geography : A Biblical Perspective, published by the Christian Institute in 2001. (ISBN 1 901086 15 1)
According to the Institute’s publicity machine, Wiecek believes that there is no such thing as neutrality in the classroom and believes that most of what is found in geography textbooks is heavily influenced by secular humanist philosophies. The book “shows the responsibility of Christian teachers to present topics to students in a way which acknowledges that we live in a created world which is ordered by a loving Good.”
The book is one of a number of small tomes of the same family published by the Christian Institute in which what appear to be fundamentalist teachers present their case for bringing their religion into their subjects and classrooms. Tomes include history, mathematics and music.
It appears that they were part of an initiative of the Institute targeted at teachers in general. They were published around the turn of this decade. Moreover, most of the authors were or became teachers at Vardy schools.
Wiecek, like many a fundamentalist, is utterly unapologetic about bringing his fundamentalism into the classroom, whether or not the parents of the children agree with it or not. The Guardian (9th March 2002) reported him as saying in a lecture in 2001 - "As Christian teachers it is essential that we are able to counter the anti-creationist position... It must be our duty as Christian teachers to counter these false doctrines with well-founded insights."
No mention, of course, that Weick does represent mainstream Christians or Christian views, but that rarely seems to bother fundamentalists.
Wiecek has also claimed that “There are Christian scientists who have … provided convincing scientific counter evidences of the Evolutionist’s position.” (See http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2004/06/20/emmanuel-college-lying-for-jesus.)
However, like other creationists at Vardy schools, Wiecek appears to have been forced to keep silent since 2002.
