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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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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          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.

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

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      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.