Not only that, I think Godless heathen atheists should as well.
Neither should be allowed to leverage teaching the concepts laid out by the school board in the curriculum as a means to force children to affirm their beliefs.
Because I don't think the State should be imposing worldviews on Children, or punishing them for having a different religion (or lack thereof) than the teacher. It's not required to educate - only to indoctrinate.
All of your comments in this thread confirm your agreement with Ohio in the dumbing down of academics, especially history and science.
Further it proves how adversarial systems of belief (religion) is to systems of process (science.)
Evolution vs. Creationism (and Young Earth Creationism) is a classic illustration of the problem. In all areas of science there is no room for bronze age myths and religious texts as subjects of input into what systems of process tell us.
Take the Christian Scriptures as an example, we are talking about text that was about 1000+ years before Christ to about 200+ years after, then edited a number of ways, canonized by the Romans, and translated multiple times over splintering into the hundreds of branches. That is all there is to that source.
What we know from science up through Galileo, Einstein, Darwin, Newton and so many others is the basis for what we describe as science. Biology, astrology, physics, geology, various other sciences gave way to methods and systems of process that resulted in even the Catholic Church admitting that evolution is a fact.
There is no science in scripture, it is impossible for it to be a source of science as the two historical periods way back to the bronze age where much of this text originated to where science started to make real discoveries (never possible in periods of human history like the dark ages where religion caused a period of devolution) are separated by a vast period of time in human history.
We can conclude beyond all doubt that religious texts are not teaching science, and Ohio is in error putting creationism on the same level as evolution.
This is one of those times were we have to reject timidity and call this nonsense out for what it really is, a dark ages like mentality of suggesting systems of faith should dominate education. Ironically given your posts to date, use religion to indoctrinate kids through education saying literal interpretations from Sunday school qualify as answers for science homework.
It should be painful for all of us to accept literal interpretations of the bible, including genesis, as fact equal to what science actually teaches us.
That fundamentalist approach to religious belief making its way into political protectionism becomes a method to dumb down education and allow people to get away with an answer to a homework assignment that the earth is 10,000 or so years old. It ensures the teacher accepts that answer "by nether reward or penalize" thus nullifying the question and/or assignment. Assuming this bill becomes so it allows someone to skate through science class answering everything with something rooted in religion and by effect not take the class.
That is worse than a plague (that ironically science tends to cure where prayer by and large fails miserably) that presents itself to science as a source. And religious text is clearly not, its only method is to insert junk science into a classroom and call it an alternative.