{"id":50603,"date":"2022-02-19T01:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50603"},"modified":"2022-02-19T01:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:35:43","slug":"tenure-war-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50603","title":{"rendered":"Tenure war in Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has found a topic on which he wants to run for re-election. He wants to demonize college professors who dare teach their students about elements of U.S. history that include slavery and racist efforts to subjugate American citizens on the basis of their skin color.<\/p>\n

He vows to eliminate tenure for those professors who teach what is called \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d His first target will be new hires at Texas public colleges and universities. He also threatens to broaden his fight to include tenured professors; he might seek to strip them of their tenure status.<\/p>\n

All of this hysteria makes me shake my noggin.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports:<\/p>\n

Conservatives over the past year have used \u201ccritical race theory\u201d as a broad label to attack progressive teachings and books in college and K-12 schools that address race and gender.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tenure is an indefinite appointment for university faculty that can only be terminated under extraordinary circumstances. Academics said Friday that tenure is intended to protect faculty and academic freedom from exactly the kind of politicization being waged by Patrick.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/02\/18\/dan-patrick-texas-tenure-critical-race-theory\/<\/a><\/p>\n

CRT is a red herring. Pure and simple. I find nothing wrong with teaching students about the aspects of our history that include the inhumane treatment our government leveled against Americans only because they were black, or brown, or anyone who isn\u2019t white.<\/p>\n

Yet such curricula have been labeled by conservatives \u2014 such as Dan Patrick \u2014 as being \u201canti-American,\u201d or that it teaches young students to \u201chate America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good grief! It doesn\u2019t do anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Patrick, thus, has become the latest demagogue to seek to make political hay out of a legitimate field of academic study.<\/p>\n

Disgraceful.<\/p>\n

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