‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee
Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts
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A lot of people on this thread are saying the consequences of these policies is intentional.
I don’t give them that much credit. I don’t think they fully understand the consequences of these policies. And as things go to shit, they will just blame liberals.
And this is all really sad. There are some really nice parts of Florida, with some really nice people. Fucking sucks. Oh well.
I passed this comment up and considered it. Many conservatives dearly believe that children are brainwashed by colleges and that there is no reason for higher education.
Couple this with anti science and hate for any art that offends people, and I'm having a hard time believing that harming higher education is NOT a goal.
It's even more sinister than that. An uneducated populace is good for the ruling class. They have more children on average and will believe the lies more willingly.
The Republican party has been trying to destroy the education system for decades. Not only do they not want the poors getting educated (more malleable labor), they want to privatize education (vouchers, divert more public money to private hands).
I'm convinced these types of arguments are from republicans trying to garner sympathy for the poor stupid people, how could they have known! See they're really not that bad guys, they just don't know any better!
Such bullshit and really the most pathetic kind of excuse.
As someone who has lived their whole life around these people, I can assure you many of them really have drunk the kool-aid. It's honestly all quite sad, and has cost me a number of friendships.
With the oversight and tenure changes I think it was unintentional.