• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The Oklahoma one is actually much worse than this tweet suggests. Here's the summary of the entire bill from the Oklahoma State Legislature:

    SB 1470 creates the Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act. The measure prohibits any public school from employing or contracting with person that promotes positions in the classroom or at any function of the public school that is in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of students. Parents and guardians may bring action against a school for occurrences when a public school promotes positions in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of the student. Relief may be granted by the court providing for an injunction which immediately enjoins the school from promoting such positions. If the school does not comply, the measure provides that petitioners may refile for relief naming the individuals who continue to violate the provisions of this measure. Named persons shall be liable for $10,000.00 in damages and may not receive any assistance from individuals or groups to make such payments. Persons found to have received aid shall be terminated from their position and may not be reemployed by a public school for a period of 5 years. Persons continuing to violate the provisions of this measure after the 2nd filing may be named in another filing and, if the court makes a finding in the petitioner’s favor, be permanently barred from working or in any way being affiliated with a public school.

    Some personal favorites:

    Persons found to have received aid shall be terminated from their position and may not be reemployed by a public school for a period of 5 years.

    if the court makes a finding in the petitioner’s favor, be permanently barred from working or in any way being affiliated with a public school.

    What this would mean is not even just that a teacher is liable for saying anything that goes against Evangelical Christian belief, they're actually liable for violating any religious beliefs of students. So even by trying to "both sides" something as basic as evolution, they would necessarily be in violation because some religious traditions, including Catholicism, canonically teach the correctness of evolution. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

    This almost strikes me as an intentional charter school ploy rather than CRT whingeing. This would still allow private school teachers to teach whatever, only public schools will have to deal with this. So you can get fired from your public school for teaching...well almost anything, and your only options are to go teach at a private school or leave teaching.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Almost scared to try to find out what the resolution is when none of these teachers have $10,000 sitting in a bank account. They gonna jail teachers?

    • riley
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      1 year ago

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      • GiveMeSickos [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I have a few Satanist friends who would have loved a chance to push some buttons with this

      • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Or what if it’s unpalatable to the mayos who go for this shit

        If this passes people should make this evangelicals worst nightmare.

        :gigachad-hd: Sorry civil war revisionist teachers, you are the spawn of Yakub and I will be taking this to court

        :frothingfash: no! Not like that!

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        If someone gets a $10k fine and a week later they suddenly get an award from a national teachers association with a convenient $10k prize, is that “assistance?”

        A Republican executive at some level could probably try to direct a prosecutor to sue the teacher for the assistance or whatever.

        I wouldn't think it could pass, but who knows. Oklahoma is an insane libertarian state, so maybe it will.