Friday, August 21, 2020
Fear or fraud or both?
Speaking of profs and online "teaching", Berenson has some interesting and varied responses from profs. Some see fearful faculty as the main block, others see fearful admins, others see a completely cynical tactic by admins.
This seems to echo what happened in some public schools. The admins began by proposing a return to normal, then after they got the contracts signed and the tuition checks cashed they closed down forever. In a sane culture this would be treated as a FRAUD. Pretend to start a business or school, get the money, disappear with the money.
Nothing new about fearful admins. They have been superphobic about lawsuits for decades, and I don't blame them. Their phobia is perfectly rational. On curricular questions like evolution and "global warming" and religion, they ferociously censor all non-Tribal opinion. Even though SOME "court" "decisions" have favored more freedom, the "legal" landscape is so tangled that a solitary activist with no resources can instantly and cheaply force the district to spend millions on a bet with a 5% chance of "winning" a narrow and meaningless prank "decision". It's VASTLY SAFER to avoid the bet entirely. THERE IS NO PROTECTION FOR SANITY, NO BULLYPOWER ON THE SIDE OF SANITY.
First kill all the lawyers. Then establish a new Trinity House.
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