Arizona Wants Students to Decide What Education is...

[sinkingfeeling]

Here's a proposed law that would allow any university student to object to any course or course material they find 'offensive' and be provided with an 'alternative'.


amending Title 15, chapter 14, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding article
> 8; relating to UNIVERSITIES and community colleges.
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> Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 15, chapter 14, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by
adding article 8, to read:

ARTICLE 8. ALTERNATIVE COURSEWORK AND MATERIALS

START_STATUTE15-1881. Alternative coursework or materials

Each university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents and
each community college under the jurisdiction of a community college
district shall adopt procedures by which students who object to any
course, coursework, learning material or activity on the basis that it is
personally offensive shall be provided without financial or academic
penalty an alternative course, alternative coursework, alternative
learning materials or alternative activity. Objection to a course,
coursework, learning material or activity on the basis that it is
personally offensive includes objections that the course, coursework,
learning material or activity conflicts with the student's beliefs or
practices in sex, morality or religion. END_STATUTE

http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/sb1331p.htm

[elehhhhna]

1. I find algebra highly offensive (and confusing!)

[Craig3410]

2. I find every class I'm currently enrolled in offensive!

And I will not rest until I'm in Baseball 101 and Looking at Hot Women 101!

:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Well that's one way fundies can get out of biology. Here's hoping none of

them are pre-med, and if so may God steer me away from their medical offices. :eyes:

[On the Road]

4. Bingo!

That must be the reason. Especially in Arizona. Fundies have taken to hijacking the means of uber-PCness for their own ends.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Seriously, t his reminds me of the big to-do when I was in high school and

the school district instituted a policy that parents could write their kids a note to get them out of sex ed and into a study hall alternative.