Posted on 12/04/2023 4:39:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, this is undoubtedly a net positive!
Yesterday, The Daily Mail reported that the “sun is setting on liberal professors in the Sunshine State” as Ron DeSantis’s anti-woke initiatives in education have begun to take effect. From the article:
The sun is setting on liberal professors in the Sunshine State as Ron DeSantis’s war on woke starts to bite, with some accusing the governor of ‘open hostility’ to higher education.
Turnover has jumped by a quarter in the last two years at the University of Florida after a slew of new laws cracked down on diversity, trans rights and jobs for life.
And the number of tenured professors leaving Florida State University is up by half with college authorities struggling to attract replacements, and the state’s academics look as far as Canada for new opportunities.
They’re actually leaving the state, sometimes even the country (sorry about your bad luck Canada). Is this how we clean up academia? Or at least the colleges in “red” states? Seems like a pretty good start.
Then, from an article in The New York Times, we read this:
Many are giving up coveted tenured positions and blaming their departures on Governor DeSantis and his effort to reshape the higher education system to fit his conservative principles.
What’s funny though, is those “conservative principles” are really just Western values and disciplines—call them “secular” if you like—and they’re exactly what made American education great in the first place. Without an understanding in masonry, engineering, or chemistry, would we have Memorial Hall in Cambridge? Without courses in Western politics and war, history, or ethics, would we have a Declaration of Independence or a Constitution?
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Excellent news...
Hope they end up in the unemployment lines...
He's toxic with leftistism.
Tenure is the most destructive policy ever implemented in education.
The locusts are swarming, bringing their destructive ideas with them wherever they go.
lol, all hard science professors... right???
Tenure once was the rebel’s case against being unfairly fired.
It is now the conformist’s case aginst being fairly fired.
Yep. I live blocks from Rhodes College. I see them all. The professors of value have all retired. My church is highly and seriesly full of the retired ones. They all did nothing when they could have. Now they complain.
...end up in the unemployment lines?”
I hope that they suffer frostbite!
De Santis should have held his fire and waited until the end of Trumps second term.
You should invite him to a Klang meeting
Campaign ad for desantist.
Well Bye!
He sees them at every turn. It’s pretty funny. Our street is so homogeneous of all sorts that he hates it. He wants to experience what doesn’t really exist here.
DeSantis WINNING!
How pathetic is that? He can’t afford his high taxes and sky-high rents or purchase prices that his progressivism created, so he flees it and works remotely in a conservative area.
There’s nothing like the courage of one’s convictions, is there?
100% agree, but I have manners. It’s not easy.
Pity.
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