Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
by Jessica Wildfire

"Most of my professor friends can't support themselves. That includes the fancy tenured professors, even at nice schools. They have sugar mamas & sugar daddies. They're married to lawyers and bankers, or IT managers. If they're like me, they've got a secret side hustle.

Here's an irony:

My university forces everyone to disclose outside income. So if you have a second job or a side hustle, you're technically supposed to report it. You're supposed to ask them for permission. They can say no.

That's right, the same university that gave me a chocolate bar for a raise also says I can't take on a second job to support my family. They're worried it would distract me from all the free work I'm doing for them." https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my-tenure/

The headline of Gaby Hinsliff's piece this morning in the Guardian says it all:

'if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children?'

The crisis in our schools is not just an immediate problem of education but will have impacts across the generations.

We needed to have sorted this out long ago, but the toxic impact of Tory education policy has undermined, disempowered & compromised the teaching profession to such an extent we're now in crisis

#teachers #education
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/parents-voters-ministers-run-out-teachers-recruitment-schools

The funniest thing about the last couple days of my timeline is that I have not once told anyone not to vote. I haven’t even said whether *I personally* will or will not vote.

And yet a lot of people are furiously convinced I’ve been lobbying against voting because I made factually correct observations about the electoral process.

In other words, the process indicts itself.

Friends, if a discussion about how voting works sounds like advocacy against voting, then the problem is with voting, not with the discussion.

#OtD 30 Apr 1883 author Jaroslav Hašek was born in Prague. Whilst most famous for writing the satirical anti-war masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk, Hasek was also a soldier, an anarchist, a PoW, a drunk, a dog-stealer, a cook and much more https://t.co/pq8VG5lre8 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10256/jaroslav-ha%C5%A1ek-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Nationalising Thames Water will not in any way threaten the stability of UK financial markets https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/nationalising-thames-water-will-not-in-any-way-threaten-the-stability-of-uk-financial-markets/. Treasury sourced rumours that financial markets that nationalising Thames Water might cause massive upset in UK financial markets are deliberate misinformation intended to reinforce the Bank of England's policy of excessive interest rates.

Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324