How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

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https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/nx-s1-5024117/louisiana-ten-commandments-classroom-requirement-how-funded-and-enforced
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How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

JUNE 30, 2024 6:31 AM ET
By The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky.

Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate religion into classrooms, from Florida legislation allowing school districts to have volunteer chaplains to counsel students to Oklahoma's top education official ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons.

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Unless a court halts the legislation, schools have just over five months until they will be required to have a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in all public school K-12 and state-funded university classrooms. But it's unclear whether the new law has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

Supporters of the law say donations will pay for the thousands of posters needed, while critics argue the law is an unfunded mandate that could burden schools. And teachers in some schools have said they likely won't hang the posters, including in the blue city of New Orleans, where residents and officials have a history of resisting conservative policies.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Hang the posters upside down.

Or use same color text as the background.

[John1956PA]

3. Hi, Irish Dem. Do you agree with my post in this thread that the law may backfire? n/t

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes I think it could backfire or just fall flat, a stunt which is an expensive waste of time.

It is inconsistent with our Constitution to put religious documents in public school classrooms.
We have separation of church and state in this country.

If the US Supreme Court allows it, then they further erode their credibility.
And it will backfire in that way, yes.

Southern states continue to look foolish. So another backfire.

The irony is that I don't know if it will have any impact on students or not.

Does placing commandments in every classroom assist children in their moral development?

Probably not.

Professional educators like to see some data before they start spending a great deal
of money on interventions.

So we can see this is just an expensive poetical stunt.
If you are not in the GOP cult, the optics are bad.

[John1956PA]

5. Thank you for raising astute points.

The execution of the law is so problematic that it should be ruled unenforceable on the basis of stupidity. Why should children in grades K though 5 have the word "adultery" foisted upon them? Having to look at those displays on a near-constant basis for thirteen years (and then, in the case of students attending state universities, for four more years) could cause psychosis. In my opinion, it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Every state legislator who voted for this law should be forced to hang such a display in every room of his or her house.

[Irish_Dem]

8. My thoughts:

The Ten Commandments will not cause psychosis in children.

But yes some children may be disturbed by the adult language.
Or ask uncomfortable questions.

So yes I believe it is psychologically inappropriate to introduce young
children to this kind of adult material.

But what will be most damaging to the children is all the disruption, arguments,
upset of the parents, teachers, school administrators.

The GOP is bringing their divisive politics right into children's classrooms.
Which is the damaging part of all of this.

Just like the GOP is bringing their gun insanity into classrooms and into
the emergency treatment of dying women in hospital ERs.

The GOP does not care who they hurt.
They will burn it all down to get what they want.

[John1956PA]

2. Doing so is a significant expense and headache for any given school district.

The expense of the posters is bad enough. Purchasing quality frames and hanging them adds to the cost and inconvenience. A given school might have fifty classrooms. The students are going to get nauseous looking at those unsightly displays in every room. I think that it is going to turn off many students from whatever message that the law in intended to impart.

[rampartc]

7. i live in new orleans

these animals are merely marking their territory.

[hatrack]

6. A. Pay for it by firing science teachers. B. Give "School Resource Officers" M16s.

Problem solved, with extra Jesus!!!

[keithbvadu2]

9. Stoning... Personally by the Guv.