Florida bill give DeSantis more power over state univ. and ban gender studies

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> It would prohibit general courses “with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical or exploratory content.”

I wish I was a professor there and I could tell the students it was no longer legal for me to teach theoretical physics.

TLDR: The bill doesn't ban theoretical models, it gates them behind an intro course that cannot be itself based in theoretics.

The bill only applies the restrictions to general ("open") courses, and only applies to courses who's curriculum is solely based in theoretics.

IE, in an intro Phys course you can cover theoretical models as part of the general curriculum because the entire cuticular model is not based in them. It can be a unit, but it can't be the course.

Courses based entirely on theoretical models aren't banned above the general level. Theory-based courses are allowed, but only above the general-tier.

That being said, some better language around how the bill determines what is and is not 'theoretical' would be interesting.

Limiting what people can choose to study seems like an odd move for someone who claims to be a proponent of freedom.

Yeah, by saying he's for freedom he's purposefully conflating the historic feeling of "the land of the free" with a particular way of life.

Free = The Star Spangled Banner, patriotism, and the way of life of thirteen low population former colonies about 250 years ago.

It is stupid to prohibit such studies and it is the same censorious ambition that proponents of gender theory so often express.

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