‘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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I've wondered how long we'll go before universities across the country start refusing to accept Florida high school graduates because their coursework does not meet basic acceptance criteria.
This is exactly what DeSantis and his ilk want. Conservatives are scared shitless of their kids going off to university and finding out that their parents and schools have been lying to them their whole life.
Solution: Ensure no out-of-state schools will accept your students so they're stuck in your shitty system forever.
I remember a homeschooled kid the first year of college. Their whole life was turned upside down. Couldn't finish the year, then they enlisted. Never heard what happened after
Couldn’t finish the year, then they enlisted.
Sounds like the system the right would like to institute and they'd be okay with this outcome.
The battles over AP curriculum were already partially this.
While this would make a big statement, the real victims would be innocent teenagers. Arguably we should be doing the opposite and trying to get as many of them out of that state as possible.
I don't understand why the education curriculum is not set at a federal level. It's not like 2+2 ever equals 14, no matter what state your from.
It might be preferable in the current political climate, but think about what might have happened if this was the case 5 years ago.
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You do realize that there are non-conservative children currently living in Florida?
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Why would you restrict the opportunities of children then? That fucks them over more than the parents, and speaking of which, there are also many non-conservative parents in Florida.
By not allowing them to receive the basic education requirements to attend college level classes their parents are the ones fucking them over, this would just be a consequence of that...
Most of our parents don't have anything to do with Ron DeSantis's laws, we just live here.
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I really enjoy how everyone on this platform circlejerks about helping the poor and then advocates fucking over kids who's parents can't afford to leave Florida
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A large section of Floridians do not vote for Ron Desantis and are subject to things like gerrymandering which prevent their votes from mattering in the first place. Most of the people who do vote for these policies are people who place no value whatsoever on education in the first place. Your policy would end up fucking over an entire state based on the actions of a minority of its residents.
I'll sum up this hard truth with an analogy: "You must be this tall to ride this rollercoaster" has nothing to do with punishing short kids. It prevents injury to short kids.
The thing is, letting kids with sub-par K-12 education into higher ed isn't doing them any favors. It sets them up for potentially devastating failure. Many of them will be so far behind that they'll fail within the first year. It's not that they're not smart, or they're not hard workers. They simply lack the foundation that their peers already have. They'll need remedial coursework before they can even try to re-take the standard curriculum. Or they may be able to limp through some basic classes before failing a year later.
Imagine that scenario for all the kids in an entire state.
And to continue your point - you're right that poor kids are punished. They're punished all across the US, but it has nothing to do with whether they're admitted to university. It's because their K-12 schools are funded by local property taxes. Rich districts get good schools with better teachers, and access to better materials and opportunities. Poor districts have few resources, more (on average) parental apathy towards education, and poorer outcomes. Even the top ranked kids from poor schools may struggle when they reach college.
Florida is trying to expand that disadvantage to an entire state. The fact that out of state admission officers will look at a HS degree from Florida the same way they'd look at one from a homeschooled kid isn't a suggestion or a proposal. It's a fact.
I really enjoy how people like you feel self-important while doing nothing but complaining.
You want to help the kids? Overturn or undermine Desantis's fucked up policies now, while those kids you're parading around have a chance. Set up tutoring servers on Discord. Set up online libraries full of banned books and spread the links everywhere. Be the change you want to see in the world. But don't you dare complain about institutions enforcing basic education standards on its students.
Institutions rejecting me because I got my diploma from Florida is a direct threat to my future. It's not possible for me to do anything about Ron DeSantis other than vote and encourage other people to vote, all of what you're suggesting involves time and effort which I don't have and can't give.
You can always go to online college out of state. Learn everything online.
🤔 We need education subs.
While this would make a big statement, the real victims would be innocent teenagers.
This part was true. There's no action that we can take to save them from shit parents if they support this nonsense.
having taken classes like "Cell Biology and Jesus", "Why God Made Calculus", and "The Physics of Heaven" from their mom.
I see you've met my cousin! I wish I was kidding. :(
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