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The bill’s author, state Rep. Dodie Horton, said to CNN affiliate WVUE, “It doesn’t preach any particular religion at all, but it certainly does recognize a higher power.”

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[–] NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Social studies teacher here. Aside from the obvious church/state problems with this, there might be an easy way around it for teachers: put up a poster with a dollar bill on it. Less conspicuous, still follows the letter of the shitty law.

[–] aircooledJenkins@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Could they not also put up multiple banners stating "in [yet another diety] we trust" and continue with "in [notable scholar] we trust" etc... Dilute the message intended by the law?

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it. Surround it with "In bigfoot we trust", "in the tooth fairy we trust"

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

'In God we trust', followed by 'In God we trust' in Arabic. 😆

Oh please hang it up and make it say "in Allah we trust". Anti discrimination and shit.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Give kids extra credit formless defacing it. “In God We ~~trust~~ Thrust” and then send the bill for constant replacing of said signage to the state.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

some people say
in god we trust
with knowledge, trust is not necessary: you know

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Just hang it up in Arabic.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

I hated social studies in school but the teachers were always the coolest ones. Nice to see the tradition is being carried on.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been teaching for almost 20 years at this point. Malicious compliance has a better chance of working than arguing with people who either don't have the power or the will to change anything or stand up for what is right.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

This is the truth of it. You can kill yourself trying to directly fight a system, when a simple dollar bill would suffice in this case.

[–] UnPassive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the law specifies minimum size of the poster and states that the motto must be the focus of the poster...

I think multiple signs from many deities might be nice. Especially the flying spaghetti monster.