CODY, Wyo. – The proposed adoption of $300,000 worth of reading materials for Cody, Wyoming students stalled this week amid criticisms about the curriculum’s “very liberal, very slanted view of the world.”

School board and community members spoke out against a slate of proposed materials for K-12 students that cover topics like global warming, evolution and race. The materials are published by education giant Pearson and Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.

The reading materials were selected by an 18-member committee who worked for over two years to recommend curriculum that aligns with the national Common Core standards.

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But many in the community are concerned about how the texts address issues like global warming, which is treated as settled science, and present a “one-sided” historical perspective that relies too heavily on the plight of minorities, according to the news site.

“I’ve never like excluding the greats just to have a certain race or sex in a book,” school board trustee William Struemke said in a recent board meeting packed with opponents to the proposal.

Struemke’s colleague, trustee Scott Weber, took issue with how the readings address global warming.

“I do not think our students should be reading about ‘junk science’ created by a failed politician,” Weber wrote, according to the Star-Tribune.

“As a board member, I will NOT authorize any of the $300,000 allocated for this purchase to include supplemental booklets about ‘global whining’ … Our Wyoming schools are largely funded by coal, oil, natural gas, mining, ranching, etc. This junk science is against community and state standards,” he added.

In total, 42 people filed formal complaints about the proposed learning materials, prompting district leaders to table the issue until the board can assemble a committee to review the grievances.

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Other concerns raised by the public included a “exaggerated focus on minorities” and the lack of radical Islam’s role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Yet despite the passionate opposition – hundreds spoke at the board’s seven hour meeting this week – there are some folks who support the proposal.

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson told attendees at the conclusion of the board meeting that “unless you show the warts, you can’t prove how we got here,” a reference to teaching to more unpleasant chapters of American history.

Simpson, a Cody High School alumnus, also thinks global warming is a real deal.

“If anyone believes that there isn’t climate change and global warming, they’re wrong,” Simpson told the Star-Tribune. “I think it’s critically important that nobody leaves this school district thinking global warming isn’t real.”

Others like Cody High junior Mariah Stephens think the objections are simply coming from old, white, stodgy Tea Party types that have no grip on reality.

“Because these total Tea Party activists are older and mostly white, they don’t quite understand what is going on in the world,” she told the news site. “And so it’s difficult for me to understand how they have the most power over something that’s not really their issue.”