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Banning (really banning) teaching of CRT in higher education is wrong and unconstitutional

Texas Lt. Gov. seeking to revoke tenure to college professors who teach CRT:


I'm pretty sure no one on this board despises the push of CRT/anti-racism into public K-12 schools more than me. But there is a bright dividing line between forced public education of minors and volitional education of adults. There is also a huge difference in the academic freedoms between college professors, who are supposed to be "creating" knowledge and those teaching children.

First Amendment jurisprudence generally recognizes this distinction. But to even broach the topic by outlawing teaching CRT/anti-racism or even revoking/denying tenure to faculty who teach or write about it, is wrong and dangerous. (That said, I think that most writing in this area is pure bunk and 99% of the people "teaching" or "researching" these topics should be fired for incompetence or not given tenure for bad writing, but those are department decisions that should be made on the merits of a person's work, not based on a blanket ban of ideas, no matter how pernicious or stupid).

Desmond Bane-Unrated

Desmond Bane put on a shooting exhibition last night in the Memphis victory over the TWolves. He played high school ball at a small Catholic school in Richmond and was completely unrated as a senior even though he averaged 30 ppg graduating in 2016. There are still good shooters in Indiana that are overlooked and not rated highly, or at all, by the rating services. I hope Coach Woodson's staff doesn't just join the bandwagon and let the rating services dictate recruiting targets.

If you have a fan base that overrates the ranking services then politically the easiest thing to do but not optimal for W/L success of the program.
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