Ohio Bill Protects Student’s Right to Religious Expression – Will Teaching Creationism Be Next?
Last week, the Ohio House of Representatives passed HB 164, the “Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019. The purpose of the bill is to protect the rights of students to religious expressions without penalty in the public school classroom. Under this bill, a student cannot be given a punative grade for simply expressing their religious views as part of a class assignment. The bill sounds sensible enough, given the many documented instances of students receiving poor grades on otherwise well written assignments merely because a teacher disagreed with the student’s religious views of the subject. A key part of the bill says that no school… “shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, Read More ›