• Blackbeard@lemmy.worldM
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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. I can see the Ivy league starting first because they have a legitimate reason to want their incoming freshmen to have top-notch coursework under their belt so they can hit the ground running, and once the first domino falls I’d imagine lots of universities would rush to join the chorus. If Florida officials want their kids to learn that slavery was good and that rainbows don’t exist, then fine. They’re disqualified from attending tertiary institutions whose history and sociology instruction is predicated on those things being bullshit. It’d be no different from some crazy-ass wingnut homeschooler trying to get into Harvard after having taken classes like “Cell Biology and Jesus”, “Why God Made Calculus”, and “The Physics of Heaven” from their mom.

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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.

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        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

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          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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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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        Meh. If it doesn’t directly impact them or their families, conservatives won’t give a shit. So I say make it very real for them, and make it clear their children are learning a version of history that significantly undermines their academic and professional careers. Harvard doesn’t owe them shit, and Karen McBurnaBook won’t pay attention to a word you say until little Annie can’t get into college and has to take remedial classes at the community college to qualify for an out-of-state 4-year institution. Maybe that way Annie will be forced to stand up to her parents’ bullshit antics when they show up at the school board meeting to call everyone a pedophile.

        You want to make an omelet? Gotta break some eggs, unfortunately.

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            What part of my comment makes you think I’m complaining about the ideology of children?

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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.

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                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…

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                  Most of our parents don’t have anything to do with Ron DeSantis’s laws, we just live here.

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                Omelet. Eggs.

                Furthermore, one of the top reasons for people to move to or away from somewhere is the quality of a school district. Families can (and do) make life-altering decisions based on where their children will get the kind of education that gives them an advantage in life. If Florida has decided it’s ok with the collateral damage to children’s future that comes with hitching their wagon to culture war issues, then I’m ok with collateral damage to show them how fucked up that is. Sucks those innocent kids have to go through this, but right now it’s either a) attend shitty FL high school and still get into college, b) attend shitty FL high school and don’t get into college, or c) don’t attend shitty FL high school. I’m not super keen on letting their kids benefit from their shittiness, but I’m also not in charge of college admissions.

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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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                    I listed very clear options for people in Florida. You didn’t refute or correct them, you just changed the subject to appeal to some kind of guilt, which is telling.

                    I. Don’t. Care. Florida citizens are very clearly and consistently voting people into office who support this bullshit. Until it bites them in the ass, they will continue to vote that way, because they have their cake and can eat it, too. It’s not my job to protect them from the pain either a) they’re inflicting upon themselves, or b) their neighbors are inflicting upon them.

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                    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.

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        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.

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      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. :(