Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors.
The survey received responses from approximately 4,000 faculty members across the south and included other states, such as Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky, in its findings. About 25% of the professors in Texas who responded said they have applied for teaching roles in other states in the last two years, with another 25% saying they intend to start a search.
Last year, salary was the top reason as to why educators across the south were seeking employment elsewhere. In this year’s findings, however, “broad political climate” was the top motivator.
Please try to stick it out until the midterms if you can.
So dictators do allow elections, but just like russia they are sham elections. So dont expect too much from the midterms.
Well I guess it depends on what kind of wacky changes are made to voting laws beforehand.
One of the things that stuck out most to me from Alexi Navalny’s memoir was when he said people in Russia learned to show up in big numbers on voting days expressing very public support for a candidate, bc it makes it harder to convincingly steal an election.
Too late. We’re already off to Germany. Not necessarily the best move, but it’s at least free for a while.
Sunken cost fallacy.
Could you clarify how that applies here?
I’m aware that you shouldn’t continue an action/behavior that will be bad for you, just because you already spent resources (the “sunk cost”) on it. But, I’m not sure exactly how that applies here. At least I believe the request to “stick it out until the midterms” comes from a belief that voting in the midterms will bring a benefit to the individual and the collective.
These guys should not have to sacrifice their careers and their mental health for these sinking states and help “save” the state when even the Democratic leadership abandons these states and with the current leadership that won’t GTFO, they’ll abandon them and the state if there’s even a whiff of it might be hard.
If they get the opportunity to better themselves, they should take it and not pass it up for some redemption arc.
My two cents of a person who abandoned a Red State life.
I still think you misused the “Sunken Cost Fallacy”.
But, I agree that it’s not some sort of moral imperative to stay. That decision depends on so many factors, not the least of which is how much you actually believe the midterms will occur and have any positive impact.
Somebody needs to fight for them, else it guarantees we’ll be fighting against them.
I dont see many gun loving Texans fighting back…
That’s… not at all what that term means.