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Who wants to bet the execution of this curriculum will be approached from a purely academic perspective?
Right now the language of the bill is very vague and the Kentucky Department of Education has not yet put together a curriculum, Amber Duke of the Kentucky ACLU said Wednesday. The concern, though, is that you could have a curriculum that is constitutional and could be delivered in a manner that is not constitutional.
The Bible class as envisioned by HB 128 is a course solely "on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament. The purpose is to provide to students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture.
It is also an elective, not a required course.
They will not be teaching about the Koran or the sacred texts of other religions, said Duke. That would be more of a comparative religions class. This is a Bible literacy class.
"The Bible could be used by schools within certain parameters and some schools did offer Bible as Literature electives," Nancy Rodriguez of the Kentucky Department of Education said in an email.
as of 2015 there were 3.3 million Muslims in the country and Islam was on pace to pass Judaism as the second-largest faith in the country
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-gives-blessing-bible-classes-public-schools-n777721
Who wants to bet the execution of this curriculum will be approached from a purely academic perspective?