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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio House passes bill allowing student answers to be scientifically wrong
as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs.
Under the law, students can't be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs.
Instead, students are graded on substance and relevance.
Every Republican in the House supported the bill. It now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate.
https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Flying Spaghetti Monster couldn't fly if it did.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)who mocked Darwin's theory on evolution that using their standards, gravity doesn't exist. It's just God putting his hand on everyone's head to keep us from floating away. The people who go missing and never seen again, well God's hand slipped off. Shut her up real fast.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Very clever.
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)My professors would have loved me if I answered, "Because that's what God wanted."
lame54
(35,294 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)This should be interesting.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)Thankfully there are more like her out there.
Cattledog
(5,916 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Doesn't the Bible already 'prove' that?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The bill, written by the crank Edward J. Goodwin, does imply various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2.[1] The bill never became law, due to the intervention of Professor C. A. Waldo of Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Students claimed people in MO were being warned that the Univ students 'matriculated---boys and girls together!'
Igel
(35,320 posts)Because 9.8 was too hard for the kids to use in their calculators.
hunter
(38,317 posts)I'm married to a woman who has occasionally taught medical statistics. Near everything in medicine is rougher than that.
What's a normal human body temperature?
300000 km/s works for the speed of light as well.
And 355/113 is a damn good fraction for pi if 22/7 or 5/16 isn't good enough.
Cha
(297,323 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Deliberate stupid ness.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)catrose
(5,068 posts)Now the rest of the effing world (mostly) is on metric, but us? Nah.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Trumpus in extremis
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Pluvious
(4,313 posts)Celerity
(43,415 posts)stopdiggin
(11,317 posts)but this is just belligerent stupidity on the part of the "religionists"
Christians .. you know I love you, but .. you OWN this sh*t.
Ain't nobody else out there tryin' to make stupidity a constitutionally protected right.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the religious liberties dispensation. Punt it to colleges and employers.
Most grads forget by far most of what they learned but don't want to believe, or just weren't interested in anyway, and sub in what they want to believe. We see that in intellectually untethered people all around us, personality the biggest culprit.
Fundamentalist religion adds yet another big barrier to learning. It's likely that removing resentment and lessening dissonance could increase acceptance of other new information. I've heard that here in Georgia, if a teacher says something that conflicts with fundamentalist ideology, the slamming shut of minds is practically audible. Some of these kids really are taught to be very careful because Satan and his demons are hunting souls, in colleges especially.
catrose
(5,068 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)two tall, beautiful, blonde, new HS grads back in California, obviously from prosperous middle class homes in their affluent community, who a TV journalist sandbagged after the graduation ceremony by asking them how many senators each state sent to DC. Neither had the slightest idea and were happy and charming as they laughingly admitted it without any real embarrassment.
We raised our kids in California. They were taught "civics" starting in elementary school and continuing in junior high (middle school) and again in high school. Pretty sure those two girls' problem came from their parents, who lead them to believe this stuff didn't matter.
We really need to do much better, of course, and our nation actually has a very serious literacy/semiliteracy problem. I have great sympathy for earnest educators in this anti-knowledge era. Last time we took a grandson to a science museum, it was featuring a fantasy theme of dragons and warlocks. Given what's happening, I was really upset to see the throwback to pre-reason thinking even there. Our DIL, as a mother up over her eyebrows in today's children's fantasy, didn't even notice the anti-science, anti-knowledge theme until I pointed it out.
catrose
(5,068 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Say, in law school?
Worse yet, the medical school entrance exams.
actually, we can sort of see the results already. Remember Jerry Falwell's Liberty University has graduated a lot of lawyers, and some of them are working in the WH now, under trump.
Which explains why he keeps losing his court cases.
Which we must be grateful for.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I heard that its ranking, already close to the bottom, immediately hit bottom in response.
I've read that the law school was founded, hardly alone in this purpose, to fundamentally alter American thinking, in law and otherwise. Ambitious, except that almost all our higher institutions have been infiltrated/subverted by influx of big money to teach conservative ideas, many in econ, law, etc., that were previously not accepted as valid. These last 40 years of the conservative era have created a real mess to undo.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Honestly, what is wrong with that state?
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)So thats why we end up with these disgraceful nut bags in power. It sucks.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hope you guys can vote the bastards out in 2020!
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)Of imbeciles here ... but remember the Supreme Court sanctioned voter purge as well ....there are way more Democrats here than is represented in the state legislature. We need to re-draw the districts and we need to get out and vote. If Kentucky can do it.....
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)That is why we have Jordan and many just like him thanks to John Boehner, our state drunk.
Starting in the next census we have a Committee that is supposed to be unbiased.
Republicans passed that because they were afraid Democrats would win.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I wish there was such a thing as no religion in the classroom.
BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)Great recipe to become a 3rd world religious dictatorship in a couple generations.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)Can't wait to watch the SAT scores nosedive.
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)that was designed by a straight A engineer who decided to measure everything in cubits because God told him to ....
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Last time I had to visit Covington for a wedding it was the worst nightmare of a maze I have ever seen! I was happy it was not me driving. The GPS was turn here,turn here. I lost count.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spence_Bridge
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)That looks like a nightmare, indeed!
catrose
(5,068 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Which of thousands of theologians will be qualified to validate the answers, and from which sects?
(crickets)
KY...........
muntrv
(14,505 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)Because under this law, that answer is JUST AS VALID as real, science-based medical knowledge. I wish these religious wackos would find a new book.
catrose
(5,068 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)Because Mohammed flew to the moon on the back of a winged horse. So that's all that's necessary.
That'll go over well, don'tcha think?
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)I'm going to major in mathematics, graduate summa cum laude, get a PhD in mathematics, and maybe even win a Nobel Prize, simply by writing 5 over and over again.
Talk about snowflakes who can't handle being told they're wrong. This sounds an awful lot like a participation trophy to me.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)My religion requires we eliminate the number 5 heresy, so I will be exempt from punishment for killing you.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Everyone knows the correct answer to everything is 6!
flying rabbit
(4,635 posts)Again. Make it stop.
hunter
(38,317 posts)... I could answer these questions either way.
This tends to upset certain Christians.
onenote
(42,714 posts)This is what it says: A school shall not "prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the
completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments. Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated
using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns, and shall not
penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student's work."
As I read it, it says that a student that includes religious expression in their coursework can't be penalized OR rewarded for having done so and that the student's work will be judged on substance and relevance including legitimate pedagogical concerns.
In other words, the substance of the work still has to be correct, and the inclusion of extraneous religious content will neither earn the student any bonus points or cause them to be penalize.
stopdiggin
(11,317 posts)but then .. I'd also be inclined to point out that the law would appear to provide a remedy .. for a problem that rarely if ever presents itself.
(in other words .. show me the legions of schoolteachers who are currently engaged in blackballing and downgrading the inclusion of religious content in papers and course work.)
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Well, I never.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...be going the way of Missouri, unfortunately.
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)demonic possession or witchcraft. No longer, it's caused by an imbalance of bodily humors, caused by toad or a small dwarf living in her belly.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)It would help keep the stupid out.
We should tax all Ohioans coming into MI and use it for free, on demand abortions for their residents coming north to get them.
llmart
(15,540 posts)I'm from Ohio and moved to Michigan. I know you're being facetious, but I have to say that you have a fair amount of your own stupid here in Michigan, especially "up North".
DFW
(54,408 posts)My religious beliefs say that my calculations of my income and the worth of my house are zero. Therefore, I am exempt from all Ohio state taxes. Now all I have to do is get Portman to introduce a similar bill in the U.S. Senate so I don't have to pay and federal taxes either........
Mr. Sparkle
(2,935 posts)if the former, i didnt realize the taliban had an international out reach program.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Here's to hoping all the repuglinazi christians ignore gravity, in real life.