And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
Probably the tone, diction
I feel like the tone of “There is NO option to opt out of this unit, it is required for all students to complete” along with “As as science class we will only focus on the scientific theory and evidence.” is suggesting that their religious beliefs are irrelevant when it comes to science, which is far from an apology.
Acknowledging that they have those beliefs and this might upset them is not apologizing to them, especially when the overall message is “too bad.”
Imagine if you saw an ice-cream stand with a sign saying “The price is 5$/cone. There is NO option to eat icecream without paying. We are aware that there are many cultural and political beliefs on economics. As a capitalist stall, we ONLY provide icecream in exchange for money. We are not trying to change your beliefs, but introducing what our standpoint is.”. If you saw that sign, I imagine you wouldn’t think “ah, what a totally normal shop”, you’d think “oh boy, Something Happened Here”.
This email is proactively defensive in the same way. In a saner world, this email would be way shorter or wouldn’t exist at all, because you wouldn’t need to specify that a particular unit is non-optional, etc. Your screenshot makes me think of USA as more weirdly religious, not less.
Ice cream is optional. School is not.
Well others have told you why it’s an apology, you can disagree
I don’t think they really have. They’ve just insisted it is.
“They haven’t told me, they’ve insisted” … what
Not sure how you can insist on something without it being communicated but ya sure
Because they haven’t given any evidence for the claim?
So first off that’s a completely different argument than the one you just made
Secondly they did, you just can’t read apparently
But whatevs man do you if you’ve got nothing better to do than sit there, trying and failing to be pedantic and just acting confused for no reason then enjoy it I guess
If I can’t read, it’s very silly of you to respond to me. But perhaps you could point out where.