Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    4 months ago

    This has to be crippling our future, right? I mean, I know the GOP needs to keep people stupid to sustain a voting base, but at some point, sabotaging your own country’s education seems like an absolutely awful idea in the long term.

    Depressing that we are failing these kids so bad…

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 months ago

      The oligarchs are perfectly fine with a lower quality of life for everyone else if it means their bottom line goes up and they can still afford what they want. In fact it benefits them by reducing the cost of one of their biggest line items: labor. You have heard billionaires repeatedly bemoan that they would prefer Americans cost the same as 3rd world countries so they can get their cheap labor.

      That’s a long winded way of saying “this is working as designed for them”

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      This has been a problem for far longer, especially with relation to massive inequality in between school districts and hypereligious education in the south