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.
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.
The Oklahoma one is actually much worse than this tweet suggests. Here's the summary of the entire bill from the Oklahoma State Legislature:
Some personal favorites:
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.
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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?
Fired and can't be reemployed in public schools for five years.
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I have a few Satanist friends who would have loved a chance to push some buttons with this
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!
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.
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