Bold of you to assume America’s public school students are still capable of reading.
Ya’ll Queda strikes again
Doesn’t the first clause of the first amendment say the government shall make no respecting an establishment of religion?
I guess Texas can’t read.
They can’t read but they can sure tell you some Bible stories.
Well, the lines that give them excuses to hate people at least.
The Supreme Court has already ruled against this. The point is to let this corrupt court reverse that ruling.
Reading doesn’t mean understanding. If I had children in Texas, I’d encourage them to ask questions over and over.
Critical thinking is the problem they’re trying to solve.
The American Taliban
While the Supreme Court rules against a Rastafarian for his religion in the same week.
They’re really sending a message about which religion gets protection.
This one really pisses me off.
The guy brought in a printout of the controlling fifth circuit opinion that was directly applicable to him, and the prison guards literally threw the court order in the trash before trashing his constitutional rights.
GD that’s even worse than I thought it would be. What kind of crazy ass cognitive dissonance is it to say it’s unfortunate, even illegal, but no, there will be no consequences for violating this law.
It’s not cognitive dissonance, it’s hate and cruelty.
Thank you!
I guess some religions are more equal than others.
Good, there’s no stronger driver of atheism than being forced to read boring canaanite fan fiction.
They are also changing the social studies program to promote christian nationalism while promoting islamphobia so no farthest from good.
Add it to the huge and ever-growing pile of “reasons to not live in Texas”. Hopefully Texans have enough of this bullshit and kick out the clowns responsible for this. But given how voters are being disenfranchised in many parts of the country, that’s very unlikely.
Are you kidding me they’re the dumbest amongst us, they won’t change.
As someone living in Texas, I agree.
They’re hoping the Supreme Court takes this case. Texas has tried this before and it was struck down. I’m not so sure it will be struck down again.
Can parents exempt their children from this? Because they already let them avoid sex education and anything that might not be hetero.
It’s okay I’m sure they’ll focus on the passage about the rich getting into heaven as likely as a camel going through a needles eye and all that chasing money changers from the temple
Teacher should make a whole thing of teaching them the original languages of each passage, and also the Latin Vulgate so they’ll get something useful out of it.
Not gonna lie if I had the opportunity to learn Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic and Latin in school that would have been amazing. Where I live, it was only Spanish
Latin and Ancient Greek were fun for a cumulated 3 minutes before I realised how unrelated those are to any of young-me interests. And it was a 2 or 3 years ride…
What about old you? I’ve always thought reading the classics in their mother tongue would be great!
Sure. I learned english largely to be able to read OG Pratchet & Tolkien. Old Greek & Latin I have actually zero interest into most of it. Maybe if that’s your thing it would be great but in that case nothing it preventing you to learn old language whenever. Young-me had no choice - those were mandatory at school.
Latin
All the better for demon-summoning incantations. And just freaking people the fuck out.
Good. Kids should know things like Ezekiel 23:20
“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
I’m sure these kids are destined to come across horsecock porn if they haven’t already.
It’s Texas, that’s one of their first Google searches /j
Everything’s bigger in Texas?
