Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
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Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
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This has to be crippling our future, right? I mean, I know the GOP needs to keep people stupid to sustain a voting base, but at some point, sabotaging your own country’s education seems like an absolutely awful idea in the long term.
Depressing that we are failing these kids so bad…
This has been a problem for far longer, especially with relation to massive inequality in between school districts and hypereligious education in the south
It’s not much better in the North. Self segregation is alive and well, along with massive funding disparities in school districts.
The oligarchs are perfectly fine with a lower quality of life for everyone else if it means their bottom line goes up and they can still afford what they want. In fact it benefits them by reducing the cost of one of their biggest line items: labor. You have heard billionaires repeatedly bemoan that they would prefer Americans cost the same as 3rd world countries so they can get their cheap labor.
That’s a long winded way of saying “this is working as designed for them”
Serfs and the educated aristocracy. That’s what they want.
I guess it’ll be good for the environment if the US becomes a developing country and starts producing things at home for poverty wages instead of needing to ship stuff
It maintains the population of uneducated slave labor for the Oligarchs to pull into their business schemes. Because they don’t have enough money yet.
The US will fall into a hole which it will take decades to claw it’s way out off and all we can hope for is that it won’t drag the entire world down with it.
We’ve been saying for decades that dictators could happen in any country, nobody was listening
And they still aren’t listening despite it barreling towards us.
When I hire someone in a different country, I have to wonder what their college education means. Is that degree from someplace similar to my local community college or closer to MIT? I always thought i had some idea for colleges in my own country, then we had the scandal of diploma mills, now we have partisan education from formerly accredited schools
If I ever see a candidate from New College, or whatever, it’ll be hard not to put that resume in the same bucket as “Bell and Howell University “