• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      I was so annoyed in high school though, because I actually did have a biology teacher who was the opposite. That boogeyman anti-faith “evolutionist” strawman.

      He openly polled the class and asked each student, row by row, if they were religious, and that they had to choose between “make believe” and science.

      It pissed me off not so much because of what he did, but that he proved that there really were science teachers like that, and all the anti-science conservative families whose children took his class would be using that story as an example of the “evil anti-God agenda” of science educators.

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          Child students are a captive audience. The classroom should be a safe place for them regardless of the beliefs they’re taught at home. No teacher should be mocking or bullying students. Let the science and truth speak for itself.

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      I’m my state, substitutes don’t need to have their credential. You get some rough candidates as a result.