Sara Spurgeon, an English professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, has been teaching literature for 20 years. But preparing for the spring 2026 semester was the first time she was forced to submit her course materials through a portal to be evaluated by an artificial-intelligence program. It flags anything that might violate new rules laid out by the university chancellor, including a prohibition on the “advocacy/promotion of race or sex-based prejudice,” and a requirement—now Texas state law—that “only two sexes, male and female, are recognized.”
The Texas war on free speech and academic freedom
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"The seven Texas public-university systems serve more than 700,000 students. There are many ways to destroy a university. Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and the University of Texas have each taken a different approach to enforcing the new state laws, with varying degrees of heavy-handedness.
But the result will be the same: substandard education, substandard research, and graduates who are less prepared for their future as workers, thinkers, and citizens, and more prepared to obey without question.
But the result will be the same: substandard education, substandard research, and graduates who are less prepared for their future as workers, thinkers, and citizens, and more prepared to obey without question.
Yakuda
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So what? If the govt is paying the bill for education why shouldnt the govt have a say in whats taught? Any teacher who wants to teach garbage to kids is free to start their own school that is free of govt financing. They can advertise it as a school that teaches kids shit and parents can decide whether or not to send their kids to that school.
Yakuda
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Take away all govt funding then you can teach whatever fucked up shit you want to teach.
The govenment is NOT paying the bill for education.
Yakuda
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Of course it is. Dont be an idiot. Oh wait ...
fuck you
Yakuda
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Why do you consistently make statements that show you're either a liar or a retard? Colleges like Hillsdale College take ZERO govt money and as a result they can teach whatever the fuck they please. Thats not what you're talking about here. You're whining that teachers are being held accountable to the people who pay for their services for teaching kids garbage and whine that its violating free speech. BTW where is "academic freedom" mentioned in the founding documents? Or is that just leftist bullshit?