Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)
Trolling as Education Policy.
(Also, as a history teacher I don't think they want us to teach any lessons the historiocity of the bible. The opportunities for malicious compliance are endless.)
Also a lot different from The Bible as a geometry textbook or as a physics lab manual.
As in it has no logical place in those classrooms except perhaps as a shim to keep a desk from wobbling.
The chemistry teacher could at least use it to demonstrate the flash point of paper.
And the rest of the historical books. "So-and-so was the worst king ever, and he sent governors who were really horrible to oppress the people, and he oppressed travellers and immigrants."
Oh I was just thinking about this. To be in the delightfully evil position of being able to show kids the admissions of atrocity in the Bible as well as the actual original commandments and how silly they were...
