> The law is to protect students against anti-religious teachers who punish students for making religious statements

idk, it seems more aligned with protecting the weird thing some USA¹ Christians do where they take the Bible as historical fact re: creation of the world...

quoting the article:

> students can't be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs.

is science class really the place to do that? are we cool with Ohio children being unfamiliar with evolutionary theory because of their religion?

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1. i'm not sure if singling out the USA is correct here, but it's the only country where i've seen this. even here in Poland, where a lot of people are seriously religious (Christian), this sort of thing doesn't seem to happen