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When teaching science conflicts with community religious beliefs

I teach high school biology and parents keep questioning my lessons on evolution and I'm worried they're going to discover I'm not religious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational integrity becomes personally threatening when professional duties conflict with local religious expectations.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Atheist and secular identity?”

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