DeSantis for the win

Cuddles said:
inb4: "How dare you teach evolution, immunology/virology, and astronomy w/my tax dollars!"
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Right, because those have no real-world use at all. Especially compared with high value add topics like "Gender Studies" and "Racial Inequality".
 
Tsing Tao said:
Private universities (so-called "bible thumping" or otherwise) can do whatever they'd like, and state universities can still teach these classes, they just cant require them as part of non-related degrees. And they have to inform students that go for specific degrees in these courses that they will likely be not getting hired by anyone and stuck with debt (as they tend to do). So yeah, as a resident of Florida, I am just fine with this.
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I agree with the not require them part, if that means specifically require them, but I'm fine with a requirement for electives. The "not getting hired" part is bunkum; no one is going to not get a job because they took an elective with, say, Zinn's History of the US as a course book. The debt part is up to the student--in a free society. Conservatives really have morphed quite rapidly into the "snowflakes" they decried so recently.
 
Ricter said:
Depends who you ask. And if book banning continues you can bet there will be more people around later who don't believe those have "real world use".
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We've gone through this before, what we now call "woke" we used to call "enlightenment". They question the use of going against the bible w/their pesky science and reason back then too.
 
Ricter said:
I agree with the not require them part, if that means specifically require them, but I'm fine with a requirement for electives. The "not getting hired" part is bunkum; no one is going to not get a job because they took an elective with, say, Zinn's History of the US as a course book. The debt part is up to the student--in a free society. Conservatives really have morphed quite rapidly into the "snowflakes" they decried so recently.
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It's not saying you won't get a job because you took an elective. its saying you're unlikely to get a job making the top 50% if you opt to get a degree in that subject. Its talking entire degrees, not electives. And there's real data to back this up, Ricter. We can show average salaries by degrees quite easily.

For someone who rails so often agains the "rentier class", you don't seem to want to ensure kids these days have a fighting chance at making a living.
 
Ricter said:
Depends who you ask. And if book banning continues you can bet there will be more people around later who don't believe those have "real world use".
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Another subject you seem to want to take the headlines on, and not actually look at what you're referring to. Did you read the bill on so-called "book banning"? Because if you have, please quote me on the parts of the bill - using the bill's language - that you have issue with.
 
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