This paragraph near the end is worth re-broadcasting on any number of platforms:
"This war will always be an asymmetric one. There’s no corresponding centrist or leftist goal of obliterating conservative institutions, despite the fact conservatives are utterly convinced their lives and values are always under attack. No group of liberals has banded together to try to force out presidents at schools like Liberty University or Hillsdale College. No left-wing educators are demanding those schools hire them and allow them to teach whatever they wish."
On school vouchers: one way of dealing with "public funding" of religious schools is to tax the folks who use them extra, maybe a bit more than the value of the voucher , with those funds over and above going specifically to public education. The Feds could help this by treating the value of the vouchers as imputed income.
Thank you for calling out the right wing billionaire take over of public education systems that after World War II made America’s middle class the most educated and prosperous in our history. As Lisa Needham points out, education will no longer be free in the economic or academic sense and neither will we. We’ll have whatever system serves the oligarchy and fascism instead of democracy. Too many people don’t understand or care about this threat.
I think there are multiple truths here though--that Elise Stefanik is absolutely horrible, Christopher Rufo is a clown, the rightwing war on education is dangerous, DEI programs in the workplace and education are problematic, AND that Dr Gay should have resigned. I’ve looked at some of her multiple instances of plagiarism and just don’t see how they all could be mere citation oversights.
Whether Dr. Gay should have resigned should have been left to the highly capable and experienced academic leadership of Harvard to decide, not right wing billionaire donors. That they would so easily be handed that power is appalling and should concern anyone who cares about higher institutions of learning.
Recognizing and repairing the tenacious legacy of centuries of quite sadistic slavery -- other countries had slaves but on balance they were still viewed as human -- will eventually lead to public recognition of how bad it actually was. It was way, way bad, to put it mildly. Way.
I support DEI programs wholeheartedly in theory. My experience with how they play out in the workplace, however, has not been positive, and I hear a lot of the same feedback from friends.
Sorry everyone, I just noticed now that I accidentally turned off comments for this post. They are open now if anyone wants to weigh in!
This paragraph near the end is worth re-broadcasting on any number of platforms:
"This war will always be an asymmetric one. There’s no corresponding centrist or leftist goal of obliterating conservative institutions, despite the fact conservatives are utterly convinced their lives and values are always under attack. No group of liberals has banded together to try to force out presidents at schools like Liberty University or Hillsdale College. No left-wing educators are demanding those schools hire them and allow them to teach whatever they wish."
-- don't for get to add the link to it:
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/claudine-gay-chris-rufo-war-on-higher-education
At a minimum it should be an SNLive skit, acting out the reverse reality --
Thanks for this post, Lisa!
Robert
Vermont
On school vouchers: one way of dealing with "public funding" of religious schools is to tax the folks who use them extra, maybe a bit more than the value of the voucher , with those funds over and above going specifically to public education. The Feds could help this by treating the value of the vouchers as imputed income.
Thank you for calling out the right wing billionaire take over of public education systems that after World War II made America’s middle class the most educated and prosperous in our history. As Lisa Needham points out, education will no longer be free in the economic or academic sense and neither will we. We’ll have whatever system serves the oligarchy and fascism instead of democracy. Too many people don’t understand or care about this threat.
I think there are multiple truths here though--that Elise Stefanik is absolutely horrible, Christopher Rufo is a clown, the rightwing war on education is dangerous, DEI programs in the workplace and education are problematic, AND that Dr Gay should have resigned. I’ve looked at some of her multiple instances of plagiarism and just don’t see how they all could be mere citation oversights.
Whether Dr. Gay should have resigned should have been left to the highly capable and experienced academic leadership of Harvard to decide, not right wing billionaire donors. That they would so easily be handed that power is appalling and should concern anyone who cares about higher institutions of learning.
Dr.Gay should have resigned!
why are DEI programs problematic? How can it hurt to make people aware of the problems faced by minorities?
Recognizing and repairing the tenacious legacy of centuries of quite sadistic slavery -- other countries had slaves but on balance they were still viewed as human -- will eventually lead to public recognition of how bad it actually was. It was way, way bad, to put it mildly. Way.
I support DEI programs wholeheartedly in theory. My experience with how they play out in the workplace, however, has not been positive, and I hear a lot of the same feedback from friends.
can you give concrete examples? Is this because of the nature of the program or just the ineptness of those running them?
Or because those who prefer to block out the truth about our racist history and culture complain about being “forced” to attend?
The merit system works best!
Ruff is NOT a clown at all!
Rufo(correction)
DEI stinks!
What
academic-leadership are you-talking about?
I assume you are referring to the Jew_Haters who do anything they choose!