I give you graduates who think the Earth is flat and is only 4,000 years old... We never went to the moon... Contrails are actually chemicals sprayed by the government to keep us in line... 9/11 was a hoax (Pick which one as there are many!)

I'd like to have Anthony wish all religious people away to the cornfield!

The GOP evangelical right is against H.O.T.S. (higher order thinking skills), they see critical thought and the skills which underpin it as "detrimental to the family structure".

There are probably mullahs in Saudi Arabia thinking how backward America is.

A few years ago in southern California, a graduate of a religious high school gave the high school's religious answers to a state college's admissions test. The college refused to admit him and his parents sued. The court told him to apply for admission to a religious college.

So I could say God- is everything and it's because of God and only God knows. Perfect score.

So everybody gets a perfect SAT score in Ohio???

How can I get a piece of this?

My sincere belief that pi=3 gave me these answers on the math test. Go ahead, flunk me out- I dare ya.

People have been giving wrong answers for religious reasons for thousands of years, whats new?

I’m so tired of living in a state of perpetual shame of my own species. We are just wallowing in a festering pit of our own ignorance and stupidity. Won’t someone invent warp drive or fusion power or immortality pills or something? Please?

There was another post talking about talking in tongues, I asked if I could use the fact that I can hold my tongue and talk as learning a foreign language. I could move to Ohio and get a PhD, in a week. Need a better reason to move, perhaps I could just write a letter and lie my ass of and get the degree.

The education system in this country is broken. Every day there is something new I can add to the growing list of reasons the US is in decline.

From the report:
Bottom line: The Ohio House has passed legislation that would allow students to give wrong answers and not be penalized if those wrong answers are based on the student’s “sincerely held religious belief.”

The kids will have a field day with this. They'll make a game of it trying to see how ridiculous their answers can be while still getting credit. I wonder what they'll have to do to prove 'sincerely held religious belief'. What a farce. Somebody has decided that education is useless and meaningless.

Wow. What are their plans for their kids' futures? Are they waiting for the second coming of Jebus to end the world so nothing will matter?

I've got news for them. Just like with all the other predictions over the last however many thousand years -- nobody's coming.

OK, would it make a difference if I said that this is not precisely what the law actually says?

I mean it's not great, but it doesn't permit students to substitute the religious answer and get marked "correct" - the law says that the student will still be held to the academic and pedagogic standards, but cannot be marked wrong for introducing religious belief into the their answer.

Hence, a T/F question asking if the Earth is 4.5 billion years old would still be correct if marked true and wrong if marked false.

But if the question is in the form of an essay and the student states that "science and the textbook says 4.5 billion years old, but my church says 6,000 years" - they can't be marked wrong as they did get the "correct" answer according to the academic standards.

Like I said - this still paves the way for shenanigans, but it's not the soundbite to which everyone is reacting.

Pfft is all that comes to mind regarding that! Lols.

Ummm, that would be drumpy's world of "alternate facts" and W.R.O.N.G.

Insane

dewine will likely sign it too, since he is a republican. and yes, kasich would have too, if he were still there. i don't understand people who think he's like "the good republican." he's NOT, and i would not count on dewine's earning that label either.

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No education to see here, move along. Another example of our Cultural self-destruction.. . .No progress comes from "wrong."

Islam anyone?