Gov. I Got Mine Fuck You Doesn't Know What Education Is
Bevin's exposing the real agenda of repugs in disparaging public education and demanding colleges teach nothing but computer coding:
They don't want informed citizens. They want mindless drones who will work for pennies an hour.
Bruce Schreiner, AP:
Gov. Matt Bevin bluntly suggested Tuesday that some academic programs on Kentucky’s college campuses have outlived their necessity in times of tight state budgets.We already have a 21st century workforce. What we lack is 21st century wages and benefits that workforce earns.
With a pointed jab at the job prospects of interpretive dancers, the Republican governor challenged public university boards and presidents to consider eliminating some courses that don’t produce graduates filling high-wage, high-demand jobs.
His message comes as the state tries to fix its failing public pension systems, and economists estimate Kentucky faces a $200 million shortfall when the fiscal year ends in mid-2018.
“Find entire parts of your campus … that don’t need to be there,” Bevin said in a speech to a higher education conference. “Either physically as programs, degrees that you’re offering, buildings that … shouldn’t be there because you’re maintaining something that’s not an asset of any value, that’s not helping to produce that 21st century educated workforce.”
What we lack is 21st century citizenship on the part of workers who will fight for their right to vote, and rich fucks who will pay their fair share of taxes, and corporations who use their profits to invest in our communities rather than socking those profits overseas where they don't have to pay taxes.
And that kind of citizenship is only learned in public education classrooms and college seminars that value a broad liberal arts education.
Including "interpretive dance" that Bevin so disparages.
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I am an educator who has seen multitudes of students come back from college with degrees in subjects that they never get to use,so while I don't like Bevins I kind of see his point. Arts students rarely make a living with their art. Most end up doing it as a sideline to a "real" job. It doesn't matter that we wish it weren't so, it is.
There is another issue where my union loving, liberal creds are not pure. Unions require that science teachers (who are not a dime a dozen) get paid the same as "liberal arts" teachers (who are a dime a dozen, sorry.) So we lose science professionals who want to teach to business, and kids don't get stellar science education. Now I know it would be great if all teachers got paid better than living wage, but the truth is they don't. I had to work at other things to support my science teaching habit. That's not fair, and I wouldn't recommend it to my students or my own kids. My son and son-in-law are in computers, one son is a chef. Two of my granddaughters are in engineering, one is a dr. The money they can make doing work other than teach allows them the opportunity to volunteer in schools, but they really don't want to teach full time and not be able to make a living.
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