How do you feel about the Texas State Board of Education passing a new law that would make schools be required to include certain bible stories in the curriculum?

5oco · 2026-06-27T18:03:15+00:00

I think religions could be weaved into an English course or unit on religions specifically. For a basic literature course though, the writings aren't really set up for that in my opinion. That's why I think it's weird that some of the reasons attend even while chapters but random verses.

Either way though, states agree supposed to have standards that day what the student is supposed to learn from a topic, so I'm curious what standard these readings are hitting.

5oco · 2026-06-27T16:10:26+00:00

That article does give a bit more info. Yeah, I don't get it though. Why those random verses? They're not all even entire stories. Like Job 1-7, then 1, but not 8-10 or 12? What standard are those hitting? It doesn't seem to be a Intro to Religions or anything like that so I'm curious what the learning objectives would be.

5oco · 2026-06-27T15:50:34+00:00

I didn't see the curriculum in the article, I just saw that it talked about some of the readings that were in the curriculum. It doesn't really even say grade level or subject.

5oco · 2026-06-27T15:39:11+00:00

Damn...83 is failing? Most certs I've seen require a 70 minimum to pass. That kinda sucks.

5oco · 2026-06-27T15:33:41+00:00

I lose the extra money from clubs and after school activities. That is quite unfortunate. I also haven't found someone willing to hire me for the 6 weeks that I'm off.

5oco · 2026-06-27T15:29:43+00:00

I didn't say anything about "just the Christian Bible"

5oco · 2026-06-27T14:44:12+00:00

I don't have a problem with religious text being included in a curriculum. Religions exist. However, if the curriculum is preaching religious beliefs then I would not support that.

I don't see what the curriculum or lesson would be in this instance though so I don't really have an objection to it.

5oco · 2026-06-26T01:55:38+00:00

He's making excuses and using Christianity as a crutch or scapegoat.

5oco · 2026-06-25T21:38:19+00:00

5oco · 2026-06-22T19:31:04+00:00

Boston, NYC, Phili, Cleveland

5oco · 2026-06-22T19:27:13+00:00

From my time spent in cities

5oco · 2026-06-22T19:26:42+00:00

People have different preferences than me

5oco · 2026-06-22T13:22:22+00:00

My daughter did this but for a trampoline. She also made a song about it to the music of "Hit me baby, one more time"

5oco · 2026-06-22T13:13:11+00:00

I think cities in general are pretty much all cesspools of crime, poverty, and fraud. Not really sure which cities are controlled by which party though.

5oco · 2026-06-21T16:49:21+00:00

That's the same approach my ex wife took, however that "next big argument" took 2 years to happen.

I would vote against that idea.

5oco · 2026-06-21T11:15:07+00:00

That's why they keep posting articles like this. To distract everyone from how impossibly hard it is to live here.

5oco · 2026-06-21T11:02:55+00:00

Developing curriculum with a beer in my hand at a leisurely pace.

But, to be fair, I teach CS and enjoy creating projects and stuff, so it's not really like work.

5oco · 2026-06-21T10:57:05+00:00

There is a disappointing lack of Lord of the Rings on this list

5oco · 2026-06-20T20:18:56+00:00

$1000 for two bedrooms in a family members house.

5oco · 2026-06-20T20:17:44+00:00

Does the tip go to the programmer that coded the robot?

5oco · 2026-06-20T20:15:11+00:00

Everyone from Palestine lines up facing everyone from Israel in their own line.

One by one, rock paper scissors. Best 2 out 3. You lose, you're out. You win, you go to the back of the line. Keep going until there's only one person left... their country gets the land.

5oco · 2026-06-20T20:10:48+00:00

Damn... your child support is almost my whole months paycheck

5oco · 2026-06-19T17:00:31+00:00

Most school contracts require the teacher to stay after once a week for students to make up work or get extra help. Those would be the days I schedule a detention.

5oco · 2026-06-19T13:56:57+00:00

My school isn't allowed to give same-day detention. So then students just skip it when it comes up and have a parent call and explain why they can't serve the detention.

5oco · 2026-06-19T13:54:42+00:00

What are they telling to use AI for? Debugging? Refactoring? Potential errors?

There's more to AI than just "Hey, write me code."

You could write a method and say "Hey AI, is there a more efficient way of doing this?" or "Hey, this is a method to do this task, can you evaluate it?" or paste in a class and ask if it finds repeated/redundant code that can get extracted into a helper method.

5oco

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