Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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9. Seriously? No student should be required to do anything they don't want to do???

Fri May 8, 2015, 02:37 PM

May 2015

That is how this sounds. I remember having to debate the pro side of charter schools once. Not only was I fundamentally opposed to charter schools, I couldn't even fake it well. But I had to try.

And when I was teaching, I had a student tell me that they would not learn anything to do with evolution. Since it was a biology class, I told her that I didn't much care what she chose to believe, she would have to learn what was taught or fail. She didn't have to like it or believe it to be true, but if she failed the tests, she failed the course. I was not putting up with bullshit. And luckily, I wasn't sued.

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Wow. Unfriend button may be working overtime on Facebook.... [View all] WillParkinson May 2015 OP

I'm gonna go out on a limb, here, and guess that maybe it was a biology or natural history course. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #1

That's the thing.... WillParkinson May 2015 #2

Those comments, ugh Cartoonist May 2015 #3

Interestingly, nil desperandum May 2015 #4

I should have added nil desperandum May 2015 #5

I suspected it would be something like this. deucemagnet May 2015 #6

Indeed it does nil desperandum May 2015 #7

Well you know, non-overlapping magisteria is a handy way deucemagnet May 2015 #8

Seriously? No student should be required to do anything they don't want to do??? Curmudgeoness May 2015 #9

This is just nuts.. these people are nuts. mountain grammy May 2015 #10