honestly people who believe in the supernatural like God and astrology need help
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Ohio House passes bill allowing student answers to be scientifically wrong due to religion
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Stuff like this makes my head hurt and makes me genuinely confused that people think this could be the right call...
If the student in question is unwilling to accept the scientific consensus, why are they taking the class in the first place?
Seems like a fundamental waste of time and resources that could be better applied to individuals that aren't lost causes.
Seems like a fundamental waste of time and resources that could be better applied to individuals that aren't lost causes.
The placating to anti-intellectualism and willful stupidity in this country is gross and depressing. This is just what we need- scientists and doctors and voters who base their decisions on spooks and specters and goblins and ghouls. This country is fucked.
Just what people need. Doctors going on their "guts" like a goddamn TV show.
Lmao My cousin seriously posted about God having more knowledge than doctors recently. Some dopey med school grad is going to try to invoke this law when they fail the OH licensing exam.
This is the entirety of the addendum in question, and I'm not really getting this same conclusion:
This doesn't sound like "wrong answers are allowed now because religion."
It's like they watched one of those BS ultra-christian movies with an Atheist teacher/professor and thought, "Well, we can't have someone lambasting our savior like that!"
This is more likely to impact an essay than a math problem. Still a pretty legally mushy precedent to try to create and a relatively toothless legislation that's probably just pandering.
This doesn't sound like "wrong answers are allowed now because religion."
It's like they watched one of those BS ultra-christian movies with an Atheist teacher/professor and thought, "Well, we can't have someone lambasting our savior like that!"
This is more likely to impact an essay than a math problem. Still a pretty legally mushy precedent to try to create and a relatively toothless legislation that's probably just pandering.
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all these years I was hearing Bonerland. Was that not it?
For laws like this, I'm sure only the "right" religions get any protection.
How about this. Allow students to graduate by passing grades with religious answers.
Then make a permanent note that they only graduated under religious exemption.
I'm sure plenty of employers looking for someone to design bridges are interested in people who think a supernatural force is the only thing holding them up.
Then make a permanent note that they only graduated under religious exemption.
I'm sure plenty of employers looking for someone to design bridges are interested in people who think a supernatural force is the only thing holding them up.
I hope so. This is definitely a case where they can make this rule bite the people who want it in the ass.
Ohio: where it's considered cool to be an opiate addict, speak like a Southerner and shit all over facts and science.
But for real: what is the deal with a cop like every five feet when you drive through that state??
But for real: what is the deal with a cop like every five feet when you drive through that state??
Breh, they ain't gonna stop them from finding a job in Ohio. Probably.
I've seen some legal experts say the same thing, that this is a bit overblown. You can't literally say 5+5=20 because Jesus. It would maybe have a little more impact on something like an essay, where there is more room for subjectivity. Overall, though, it seems like a show bill with no actual teeth to pander to the religious right.
Certainly, though, someone will try test the limits of this at some point.
This seems subjective as fuck, I can't imagine any self respecting science teacher is going to let a bunch of "BuT gOd CrEaTeD cLiMaTe ChAnGe!" answers slide because they are neither relevant nor of substance. This kind of strikes me as the type of legislation that looks good to conservative voters but doesn't actually move the needle in any actual public school classroom and only exists to make everyone's conservative neighbors think that they stuck it to the libzzzz.