This is such a crock of shit.
Not only are they giving far too little credit to students (who, let?s face it, might possibly be able to think for themselves), but they're actually taking a step backwards into history to a time when Galileo was tortured until he recanted his belief that the earth revolved around the sun.
Allowing students (and by extension the parents of students) to sue professors for doing their job (i.e. providing a broad landscape of ideas and theories) is reprehensible. According to the law, ??suits could be filed by students who don?t believe astronauts landed on the moon, who believe teaching birth control is a sin or even by Shands medical students who refuse to perform blood transfusions and believe prayer is the only way to heal the body.?
The whole point of higher education is to get away from the state-mandated curriculums of grade, middle and high school. College is supposed to be about testing yourself and your beliefs, expanding your horizon, learning about other cultures, beliefs, religions, and histories.
College is not supposed to be about forcing educators to teach what lawmakers want them to teach. I think the end result of this, should it pass, will be that accreditation will be withdrawn and fewer and fewer students will enroll, weakening Florida's higher education until it rests upon a foundation shakier than California's sinking shores.