Oklahoma Senator Rob Standridge has proposed the Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act, which includes an option to sue teachers $10,000 for contradicting a student’s religious beliefs.
In fact, the bill forbids school districts to employ a person “that promotes positions in the classroom or any function of the public school that is in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of students.”
The bill also allows parents to bring an action against the school or individual, in which case they can seek the following remedies.
1) They can ask for an injunction to require the school and teacher be “enjoined from the conduct” that promotes positions “in opposition to the closely held religious beliefs of the student.”
2) If the school does not immediately comply, the parents or guardians may refile against any and all employees of the district “directly or indirectly” promoting those positions. Those individuals can be held liable for a minimum of $10,000 in damages (per […]
I’m curious as to who decides whether the school or teacher complies or not. The First Southern Baptist school board or Senate?
Wow. Education is already underfunded, teachers are leaving the profession because increasingly they are confronted with enormous classes and expected to do the work that parents once did, and many youths are leaving their senior years barely literate. But this is a step back into the dark ages, and the extraordinary dumbing down of America. So now teachers must teach that biblical patriarchs rode on dinosaurs, in order to be “fair”? Or they can’t teach evolution at all now? This is really sad.