- find x in the following equation:
X^2 - 6x + 5 = 0
- God said 3.
An old joke:
In a Catholic school:
“Johnny, tell us, how does electricity make a bulb work?”
“Through God’s help!”
“Good, A for you.”
It’s now a reality in the US.
Bonus points! You even showed your work!
I’m sorry, i just can’t help myself X = 5 or 1
Failed.
Reason: didn’t mention God.
Rats! Foiled again by that pesky all powerful being…
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Allah said 42.
I think I’m converting to pannumerism.
1 * 0 = 0 = 1 *2 (1*0) / 0 = 0 = (2*0) / 0 1 = 2(/jk, this is why we don’t divide by zero)
Back in highschool, we had a kinda shitty math teacher who got put on honors precalc, which was kind of above her head. As a joke, one of the students wrote out a more complex version of that proof (just extra steps padding it out and making it slightly less obvious he was dividing by 0) wrote the proof out at the top of an exam, and answered every question as 0.
The teacher spent a month thinking her genius student had disproved all of mathematics before someone finally explained it to her.
I dunno why, but only had either incredibly shitty math teachers or incredibly awesome math teachers.
The best was a guy who fought in Vietnam (and talked about those experiences, instead of not saying anything,) and also had a Friday-class-teacher as often as he could.
The guest teachers were always people who used the math we were learning in careers that where just about math. (They were also actually interesting people. You’d think the actuary would be boring. There were also pharmacists and doctors. Chemists. People you’d not normally think of.)
They weren’t teaching math so much as talking about what they were doing with it- if it was research, it was what they were researching then and there, etc.
Had him for a lot of classes. Algebra, statistics. Trig.
In any case the worst two was either the guy the school hired to be a football coach that used and insisted we used play calling diagrams to “show our work.” And it wasn’t anything like the usual steps.
The other worst was a lady who I described as Eva Braun’s Evil Twin. (I still stand by that. She was not a good person and she routinely bullied a friend. I idea how that teacher was still employed.)
All three of them got that for something. Mr Awesome laughed, and said “this is why we don’t divide by zero.”
The evil Eva Braun got really pissed off.
The coach? Yeah. He struggled with it for a week or two. Until he took it to another of the teachers and came back really pissed off. (He tried to make me run laps around the school as punishment. I just ignored him.)
Dividing by zero is God’s will.
x = (X^2 + 5)/6
If the assignment is asking for facts and evidence to support your position, and you come back with “Well, it’s in the Bible, so it must be true”…sorry Sunshine, you fuckin’ failed.
And what what’s her name said wasn’t even really in the Bible. (Or at least she provided no actual citation to that effect.)
Worse, y’know what is in the Bible?
“Women, shut up.”. 1Tim2, 1Cor14, etc.
(Paul was a dick. And it’s even worse if you go to the Bronze Age bits…)
It’s a liability to hire people educated in Florida
The ones who are educated down here are from up north. There is no value in education down here.
So… hearsay that was written down hundreds of years after the fact, then edited and translated repeatedly, is fair game?
This case is worse than that. The student didn’t even cite the actual bible. No verses quoted, nothing. They mostly quoted right-wing talking points.
Florida allows magic Sky Daddy to be citable.
Queue new religions of climate change, transexuals, socialism, etc.
My God says climate change is real and you have to respect my religion.
No, Not like that!
So just pastafarianism?
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is indeed quite tasty, but I prefer adherence to the Big Flying Dildo.
BFD even sent a sign. (That giant phallic iceberg in conception bay. Photographed by a guy from Dildo.)
Not that the two are, ah, mutually exclusive. BFD embraces all gods who aren’t toxic assholes.
Sounds like my kind of Sky Daddy. One with tasty noodley appendages.
I know it may seem ridiculous but traditional religion is also ridiculous. If we are going to keep giving real privileges to imaginary concepts we need to take advantage of it.
It is time to make WOKE an actual religion. Then conservatives have no choice but to protect WOKE by their own laws. Don’t forget private WOKE charter schools, safe zone for WOKE practice, and refusal to serve non-WOKE people.
Back in my day, we had to be academic and professional. If you didn’t respond to the prompt, you would fail.
Kids are so coddled and babied all the way to adulthood. Thank god they have AI to make their lives better. /s
Can’t have conservative voters without stupid people.
The GOP is well aware of that.
I used to teach community college sociology. My mostly-millennial students were largely evangelicals, and even they knew better than to cite the Bible in a college-level social science class.
The smugness of her smile. Fuck this lady. She’ll go on to make life difficult for others for the next sixty years.
If I recall correctly, her mother is also a proud Karen.
Looks like there’s nothing going on behind those eyes
Any diploma she gets is going to be fucking useless with her name forever tied to this story.
Sounds targeted at assignments in biology and in particular Evolution. If they still mention that in the classroom.
It sounds like it may be triggered by the woman who wrote an assignment responding to a psychology paper discussing pressures and bullying of people about gender norms. Her “thoughtful” reaction was essentially “they aren’t bullied or pressured, and it totally makes sense that they are being bullied and pressured and they need to accept they don’t belong to themselves but belong to God and need to be womanly or manly because God said so”
Didn’t even cite the Bible, but the critique was not about citations but about not using evidence to support the claim. Also the inconsistent nature of simultaneously saying there’s no bullying or pressure and saying the bullying and pressure are justified in the name of God. Further from a psychology perspective, displays a complete unwillingness to even consider the psychological situation of another human being if it doesn’t fully align with the world view.
It probably could have gotten credit if she cited some study extolling the benefits of traditional gender norms and/or the mental stresses of non traditional explorations, I’m sure some conservative nutjiobs have managed to publish such a study, or falling that she could probably dig into 19th century “science” and find something to support her view. It would have been odious. But at least would have demonstrated a willingness to go searching for something to support her stance instead of just shutting down and copping out with a vague “God disagrees”
Aw yisss I started a cult and speak for my god, A minuses here I come
If they’re a theology major, they should be allowed. 🤷♂️
Scientists have determined that the universe was created by- GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD -bang
And god said “do not believe in me for I am a fraud” and so they stopped believing and it was good.
That is not remotely what the bill says. It just say that a school can’t fail a kid because of their religion or politics. The kid still has to do the academic work.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/835
(3)(a) A student may express his or her religious,58 political, or ideological beliefs in coursework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination oracademic penalty. A student’s homework and classroom assignments shall be evaluated, regardless of their religious, political, or ideological content, based on expected academic standards relating to the course curriculum and requirements. A student may not be penalized or rewarded based on the religious, political, or ideological content of his or her work if the coursework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments require a student’s viewpoint to be expresse
So what happens when the student writes a sermon instead of doing the assignment, rightfully gets a 0 for not doing the assignment, and then writes to the governor and right wing media apparatuses complaining about religious discrimination?
Well they would also need a series of Judges and a jury to also be in on the scam.
Not saying that’s not possible in Florida, but if that’s the case then they didn’t really need to pass a new law anyway, did they?
Or maybe, and I know this can be hard to believe, the university gets scared of baseless suits backed by powerful figures supported by disingenuous interpretations of these kinds of laws and they bow to political pressure and fire the people that gave the assignment so they don’t have to defend themselves in a costly, frivolous case?
If that were to happen, and I know it’s a stretch and would never actually happen in the US because every civil entity here has steadfast morals based upon dignity and respect, then modifying laws that already forbid discrimination to make the language a bit more ambiguous and easier to use as a cudgel is a dangerous move targeting our educators.
Guys, come on. How do y’all not know the conservative’s playbook by now? They only have two plays.
- They do really evil shit.
- They do rage bait shit.
When they do evil shit they don’t hide it under 15 levels of riddles. They really aren’t smart people. Their really evil shit stuff is like “Here’s $300 billion for concentration camps with gas chambers.” They don’t hide it.
But every single time you guys always reliably fall for their rage bait shit. Every time. They could whisper “God” and your guys lose your minds. Every time. Like clockwork.
There’s rage bait and there’s making laws. Even if meant in jest, laws still are expected to be followed with deleterious consequences for disobedience.
It does no one good to let evil slide just cause you think they’re messing around.
Boy, I mean I know the make George Carlin Americans but damn can I sell you a bridge now?
I’m the only one here that actually bothered to look up and read the law.
No, but you’re the only one that doesn’t seem to understand the intent behind these bills.
A Republican wrote it - which means it’s either a dirty trick or will be eventually
This story is dumb, this girl is dumb, and these cunts need to fuck off out of the classrooms they failed out of the first time around
her grifter mother is a jan 6 lawyer, who is defending the 1500 people too. and she is looking to be the next fox new bimbo talkinghead.
All that is already in effect in the actually sensible form. Therefore this bill must be about enforcing an insensible interpretation.
Actually if you really read the bill most of the additions are concerning protecting political speech, not religious speech (which was already protected).
So if it’s anything more than a political social media bait, then it’s about ensuring conservative kids can praise Trump, not God. (But really, it’s just bait that you guys are happy to swallow.)
I was reading your comment with interest until you decided to act superior and insult everyone. Bye!
There was a story about a student in Oklahoma getting a zero on an assignment and they suspended the teacher after the student complained.
You read the assignment and it’s just really crappy, not merely religious, but because it had a religious bent, the conservatives exploded and asserted religious persecution. Even as anyone reading the assignment could see it was crap and the evaluators have a clear response explaining that the religious facet wasn’t the problem, conservative media ran wild with the story. Most of the time they didn’t even include the assignment or response, telling the audience to be outraged without letting them decided for themselves.
The wording may claim someone shouldn’t be rewarded just for their religious views, but when it does come up, they demand a passing grade just because they assert “God’s will”.
This is generally already covered, but the very specific wording is ammunition to scenarios like the this.
I’m aware of that case, and if you read the language of the bill it doesn’t address that situation very well.
That case is a weird one because I actually think both sides, the student and the graduate assistant grader, were wrong. And ultimately I think the GA was more wrong because the GA held the position of authority in the situation. I generally think that those in authority should be held to more strict standards.
In that specific case that you, there was a very clear scoring rubric published that the GA was supposed to follow. (You can find the rubric published online.) There is no possible way a rational person could read the grading rubric and conclude the student deserved a 0. Yes, it was a very stupidly written essay, but it wasn’t a zero -not if you follow the published rubric. The student was given a zero only because of religious discrimination. The grader should have followed the rubric. If the grader has followed the rubric then the student still would have likely failed the assignment, but the grader would have been able to justify the grade and would probably have avoided getting disciplined.
That’s my position on that. I’m sure you disagree and believe the student was 100% at fault.
I saw someone point out that it should have received a non zero score, however the word count was low enough to get hit by the stated 10 point deduction. And they thought it might be a 7 to 9 out of 25, but the word count brings it to zero.
Also it was just one assignment, not like they even were going to flunk the class, especially if, as she asserted, she otherwise had perfect scores on these reaction essays.
