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Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment
(kcrg.com)
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by hn_acker
"The nonprofit Common Sense Institute reported student interest and enrollment was low — with just eight students in one class. The report said enrollment is unlikely to grow unless the state mandated students take the classes, which is exactly what Republican lawmakers passed."
But despite the overtly Orwellian effort, the Democrats responded in typical ineffectual, tone-deaf fashion:
"Democratic Sen. Janet Petersen slammed that idea, arguing it will drive up costs for Iowa college students and their families."
Costs. Yeah. That's the problem.
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1 https://www.thegazette.com/news/gop-invited-to-center-for-in...
2 https://www.thegazette.com/news/education/university-of-iowa...
3 https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2023-0...
> Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment
realistically though, the rest of the B1G is definitely going to negatively recruit against this. Just like they are being told to negatively recruit southern states around the voting rights act stuff. Not that Iowa State cares about the B1G but they are generally going after the same guys. Now the B1G schools have wayyy more money, and the recruiting high ground.
It’s gonna get ugly in college sports.
I'm all for challenging assumptions and what not, but that should come with a willingness to change one's mind when confronted with compelling evidence. I see a paucity of that from the people who push this kind of stuff.
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Indeed. And what better way to prove it than by mandating six credit hours worth of tuition fees on the topic?
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My point is simple: the opaque nature of the site is suspicious, and the wording about "debating" CEOs, etc is an interesting choice as well: rather than "engaging", "learning from", "hearing from" etc.
I'm all for what they ostensibly represent: social/poltical science and the constitution. Both subjects all citizens should be able to have critical reasoning skills about.
The fact that the current regime is flagrantly ignoring the constitution, that it's adherents don't mind at all, and that they are likely aligned with this org is worthy of scrutiny.
Also there's this: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63814717/