Snopes---OH law that students can't be penalized 4 answers that agree with their religion is NO prob

[bobbieinok]

PZ Meyer discusses today at his blog pharyngula why Snopes gets it wrong!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Link, please?

[exboyfil]

3. I found it here

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/11/18/im-going-to-have-to-disagree-with-you-there-snopes/#comments

[yellowdogintexas]

4. LOL my Old Testament professor told us the first day of class

that some of us would be shocked, frightened, or vehemently disagree with the things were going to study, starting with the "Mythology of the Ancient Hebrews" He defined mythology as the attempt of uncivilized man to explain things they did not understand

He also emphatically stated that he welcomed lively discussion in class, in the Snack Bar, in his office or walking around campus but to not even dare to try it on an exam because he would take off lots of points.

I loved him. He would rant magnificently about literalists, inerrant truth, absurdity of the Bible directly written by God, and many other fundamentalist beliefs. He had a string of invectives: balderdash, claptrap, hogwash, poppycock and gutter rubbish. All in a row, but always in different orders and at the top of his lungs. That skinny little man could raise a ruckus too

Ordained United Methodist minister, Divinity degree and PhD from Vanderbilt.

One could not be classified as a Junior unless this course and the companion New Testament course had been passed.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Here's the Snopes link

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ohio-school-religion-answers/

Calls the claim ‘unproven’

[NeoGreen]

2. How will a teacher know that the student's answers are correct...

...in regards to the dogma of the selected religion.

Are we now Ok with having the government evaluate students for Heresy?

[Newest Reality]

6. So then...

A Pastafarian can cite the correlation of the number of pirates to climate change as the cause without being penalized, or not?

[crickets]

7. Can't wait until someone does, pointing out

how silly it is to give religious answers to questions on a science test. No disrespect to His Noodly Appendage intended.

[Newest Reality]

9. Yes, and Ramen!

[Ms. Toad]

8. I'll go with snopes on this one.

Sec. 3320.03. No school district board of education, governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, or board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments. Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns, and shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work.

Ordinar academic standards of substance and relevance = only science-based answers are relevant in science- based classes. However - if an art assignment is to depict the creation of the world, a student could not be penalized for depicting God creating the world - or for depicting it as a consequence of a big celestial bang.

I think the concern is hyperbole by people who read reports of the law, rather than the law itself. Which is essentially what snopes says.