By Stephen Schwager and Eddie Speir Thanks for reading Eddie’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Just as DEI offices are used as the administrative mechanisms to push Critical Race Theory, Critical Social Justice, and Gender, Trans, and Queer Ideologies, which, when taken together, as we explained previously, is the religion called Woke/Wokeism, Gender Studies programs and courses are the academic mechanisms by which these ideologies promulgate.
Well stated! The venomous reaction to changes that WILL happen at NCF reveals a complete breakdown at NCF in vision and worse - like a family with the elephant of alcoholism in the room - a total denial of facts!
Here are the facts : 1. No college worldwide can exist with only 1/2 the number of students necessary to sustain its existence. None.
2. When faculty react both loudly and circuitously denouncing present students who welcome the changes, the depth of dishonor becomes visible: NCF has fallen far from the honor of advertising itself as “an honors college”open to all. It now has an agenda, one of intolerance. The only game here: Gender! Can a faculty that “ pretends” to be open minded because it pushes the popular far left agenda of queer theory EVER perceive that it has turned freedom on its head in fact wormed its way into power at NCF making it an intolerant college powered by the tyranny of the few?
I’m sorry, but no matter the nature of the few - even if your mythic system of beliefs considers this few to suffer disrespect - you still cannot take over a public state college and direct its entire program to one type of student, nor hire only faculty who will place that type above all others. If your desire is to create a queer theory college please raise funds and open a private college but to take over an entire system to fit one theory of human sexuality? No. Students or faculty involved in such a narrow emphasis must remove themselves to their own private institutions. Public education is a sacred right of all not an agenda-filled privately dominated singular issue anomaly. However there is already a singling out here: honors.
Honors IS special. It means you learn quickly and can achieve more in-depth than most students. NCF, therefore, must capture into its student body youth with the gifts to lead the way forward. Honors students have special privileges at all colleges: the gift of NCF - the promise here in the future is boundless. All students here should be from honors classes statewide. The advanced classes in all fields taught here could Bless our nation and our world magnificently. Just give newly chosen trustees the time - under this transitional President - to locate a President and faculty capable of answering the call to such meritocracy as already exists all across Florida in honors graduate. Get the word out: NCF is a place for the gifted that exists for accelerating learning. It’s a public college in our state, the pride of the potential of the gifted: a functioning undergraduate honors college with a worthy reputation.
Does this mean Nobel Prize worthy? Yes! Youth who begin here in time can reach the apex in complex fields that require the best minds achieve their highest reach! It means exactly that. 🌻🌻🌻
"destructive tenets of wokeism" - a word salad with no evidentiary foundation.
"The offices of DEI have been closed" - there was no "DEI" office. There was a single staff member, within a larger office, assigned *any* specific DEI tasks.
"..mutable and immutable characteristics" (of students) - I'm curious what types of characteristics you consider to fall into each of those two categories. Care to expound?
"Gender Studies courses pushing dogmatic, toxic ideologies that serve only to divide and sow discord, distrust, and hostility have no place at an institution dedicated to rigorous academic scholarship and the free, open exchange of ideas" - I agree with this statement.
Now, I challenge you to publicly identify any courses at New College that are actually doing this, with concrete evidence, and not just based on your opinion.
You write: "Gender Studies courses pushing dogmatic, toxic ideologies that serve only to divide and sow discord, distrust, and hostility have no place at an institution dedicated to rigorous academic scholarship and the free, open exchange of ideas."
Are you saying *every* gender studies class at New College does this? Or if not, which specific courses do this? I'd love to have specific examples against which to evaluate the claim.
Oh Stephen… from assistant headmaster at IMG Academy to culture war pundit? So disappointing. I recall how passionate you were when you instilled upon IMG faculty Bloom’s Taxonomy and the importance of critical thinking. I did not know; however, you could sink so low as to denigrate the higher order thinking, academic rigor, historical context, and cultural relevance/insight acquired through gender studies. Perhaps you feel empowered to further tread on marginalized and vulnerable populations, but you are on the wrong side of history on this one. I am sorry to see you on your chosen side of the culture wars.
I think it's pretty obvious after last week of what happens when a school just sticks to one ideology, you get disgusting behavior towards someone because they choose to think differently. Colleges used to say speak your mind. Now when you do you become an enemy. Sad and disgusting.
I think it's pretty obvious after last week of what happens when a school just sticks to one ideology, you get disgusting behavior towards someone because they choose to think differently. Colleges used to say speak your mind. Now when you do you become an enemy. Sad and disgusting.
Well stated! The venomous reaction to changes that WILL happen at NCF reveals a complete breakdown at NCF in vision and worse - like a family with the elephant of alcoholism in the room - a total denial of facts!
Here are the facts : 1. No college worldwide can exist with only 1/2 the number of students necessary to sustain its existence. None.
2. When faculty react both loudly and circuitously denouncing present students who welcome the changes, the depth of dishonor becomes visible: NCF has fallen far from the honor of advertising itself as “an honors college”open to all. It now has an agenda, one of intolerance. The only game here: Gender! Can a faculty that “ pretends” to be open minded because it pushes the popular far left agenda of queer theory EVER perceive that it has turned freedom on its head in fact wormed its way into power at NCF making it an intolerant college powered by the tyranny of the few?
I’m sorry, but no matter the nature of the few - even if your mythic system of beliefs considers this few to suffer disrespect - you still cannot take over a public state college and direct its entire program to one type of student, nor hire only faculty who will place that type above all others. If your desire is to create a queer theory college please raise funds and open a private college but to take over an entire system to fit one theory of human sexuality? No. Students or faculty involved in such a narrow emphasis must remove themselves to their own private institutions. Public education is a sacred right of all not an agenda-filled privately dominated singular issue anomaly. However there is already a singling out here: honors.
Honors IS special. It means you learn quickly and can achieve more in-depth than most students. NCF, therefore, must capture into its student body youth with the gifts to lead the way forward. Honors students have special privileges at all colleges: the gift of NCF - the promise here in the future is boundless. All students here should be from honors classes statewide. The advanced classes in all fields taught here could Bless our nation and our world magnificently. Just give newly chosen trustees the time - under this transitional President - to locate a President and faculty capable of answering the call to such meritocracy as already exists all across Florida in honors graduate. Get the word out: NCF is a place for the gifted that exists for accelerating learning. It’s a public college in our state, the pride of the potential of the gifted: a functioning undergraduate honors college with a worthy reputation.
Does this mean Nobel Prize worthy? Yes! Youth who begin here in time can reach the apex in complex fields that require the best minds achieve their highest reach! It means exactly that. 🌻🌻🌻
"destructive tenets of wokeism" - a word salad with no evidentiary foundation.
"The offices of DEI have been closed" - there was no "DEI" office. There was a single staff member, within a larger office, assigned *any* specific DEI tasks.
"..mutable and immutable characteristics" (of students) - I'm curious what types of characteristics you consider to fall into each of those two categories. Care to expound?
"Gender Studies courses pushing dogmatic, toxic ideologies that serve only to divide and sow discord, distrust, and hostility have no place at an institution dedicated to rigorous academic scholarship and the free, open exchange of ideas" - I agree with this statement.
Now, I challenge you to publicly identify any courses at New College that are actually doing this, with concrete evidence, and not just based on your opinion.
You write: "Gender Studies courses pushing dogmatic, toxic ideologies that serve only to divide and sow discord, distrust, and hostility have no place at an institution dedicated to rigorous academic scholarship and the free, open exchange of ideas."
Are you saying *every* gender studies class at New College does this? Or if not, which specific courses do this? I'd love to have specific examples against which to evaluate the claim.
Oh Stephen… from assistant headmaster at IMG Academy to culture war pundit? So disappointing. I recall how passionate you were when you instilled upon IMG faculty Bloom’s Taxonomy and the importance of critical thinking. I did not know; however, you could sink so low as to denigrate the higher order thinking, academic rigor, historical context, and cultural relevance/insight acquired through gender studies. Perhaps you feel empowered to further tread on marginalized and vulnerable populations, but you are on the wrong side of history on this one. I am sorry to see you on your chosen side of the culture wars.
I think it's pretty obvious after last week of what happens when a school just sticks to one ideology, you get disgusting behavior towards someone because they choose to think differently. Colleges used to say speak your mind. Now when you do you become an enemy. Sad and disgusting.
I think it's pretty obvious after last week of what happens when a school just sticks to one ideology, you get disgusting behavior towards someone because they choose to think differently. Colleges used to say speak your mind. Now when you do you become an enemy. Sad and disgusting.