• @LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    471 year ago

    This is why we need to strengthen department of education. Otherwise these asshole billionaires will run education system like theirs own fiefdoms.

    Of course repubes want to get rid of department of education. Perfectly on brand.

    • @tearsintherain@leminal.space
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      Billionaires certainly despise unions, profiting by exploiting working people is fundamental to their business models. So Republicans of course loathe unions and thus degradation and control of public education, public school teachers has been a running long term goal.

      Charter factories Schools are the foot in the door for free marketeers. Why respect teachers, hire more staff and better fund schools, create communities, when you can cut costs, treat kids and education itself as products, and send those savings into the pockets of just a few people.

  • @Pronell@lemmy.world
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    431 year ago

    Yes, tell the administrators to whip those students into shape, that’ll bring them around.

    Certainly won’t have any blowback in the least.

  • @unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    331 year ago

    We need to just, like, cancel money. Fuck these twats and their useless ignorant influence. How dare you put education on the line to defend genocide

    garbage human

  • Chris
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    331 year ago

    No idea who he is but good for him. If more of the aristocracy announce themselves we will know who to not give a fuck about.

  • @NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
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    221 year ago

    Schools are taking people’s free speech! Wait, I’m not donating to schools until they do it more! But to those I dislike!

  • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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    211 year ago

    He’s pulling support from the school that’s cracking down so heavily and violently on the protests? What’s he for I’m having trouble understanding the logic here.

    • @taanegl@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      It’s easy. He wants more pressure, more punishment, also it’s a good excuse to get out now since colleges are doomed in the US due to reasons.

        • @taanegl@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          Oh, the massive loan fraud situation, corporate poatching of talent and patents, the fact that most collages are run by a bunch of greedy, nepotistic fucks, whose concern for acedemia begins and ends with football teams.

          The slow moving enshitification has been going on for years, and soon people who want to be taken seriously in the market place will either avoid US collages altogether or go to foreign collages.

          Uni’s will be fine, but collages? Without management reform, we’ll be seeing a downward curve regarding their legitimacy - from an academic point of view, of course.

          • @tearsintherain@leminal.space
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            311 months ago

            Privatize everything free market capitalists have been chipping away at K-12 for some time now. Charter factories Schools are primo examples of divide and conquer public education.

    • goferking (he/him)
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      611 months ago

      Nah he is sad they aren’t going harder on them

      Kraft echoed the sentiment in a statement issued through an organization he founded called the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism. “I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country,” he wrote. “I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.”

  • goferking (he/him)
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    Kraft echoed the sentiment in a statement issued through an organization he founded called the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism. “I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country,” he wrote. “I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.”

    So beat down the protests harder or you don’t get money? That’s his argument?

  • @conquer4@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    So he’s pulling support from the school, effectively he supports the protesters and staff who walked and not the school who is trying to make them go away. I don’t care about his mouth words, his actions matter more.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      Columbia has a $13.6B endowment, which has consistently grown at 8-10% annually.

      Kraft has historically donated in the $5M range annually. So, less than 1% of what the university earns on a portfolio whose principle never gets touched.