Ohio legislators have passed a bill along party lines that has the hosts of Today in Ohio podcast warning of a regression to 1950s social values and comparing the legislation to dystopian fiction.

Senate Bill 156, which passed the Ohio Senate 24-9 on Thursday, would require schools to teach students the so-called “Success Sequence” - a prescribed life path that proponents claim helps people avoid poverty.

“This bill is based on what’s called the Success Sequence theory. What this would do, it would require schools to teach that those who get a high school diploma, work full time jobs and marry before having children are less likely to be poverty stricken as adults,” explained Lisa Garvin on the podcast.

The curriculum would target students in grades 6-12, with the Ohio Department of

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