Meanwhile, instead of challenging the dismantling of tenure, the faculty is busily trying to keep from getting shot. This issue didn’t make it past the local education beats, because why should a voter in Massachusetts care if some state school in Florida yanks job security from their teachers? It’s Florida, the state where so much weird stuff happens that Carl Hiassen and Tim Dorsey have made careers out of making fun of it. Without any explanation by the board, all new hires will be temporary, one-year positions. The school had already eliminated tenure, but had made use of five-year continuous contracts with the option of due process. Last month, without much fanfare or warning, the State College of Florida made all of its new faculty contingency hires. In short, these are fights over the future of the last bastion of civilization: the school, both as a socially-proscribed place of learning as well as an existential site where emotions intersect with politics. Without fanfare, teachers at both K-12 and colleges are being stripped of tenure, making schools battlegrounds over worker’s rights but also, more broadly, a fight over the role that education plays in a functioning civil society.
In the second instance, the manifestation of violence is a social: high schools and colleges happens to be where large numbers of teenagers are concentrated, and low self-esteem + poor impulse control = violence.īut from community colleges to public universities, the institution itself is under attack, and students are twice victimized as a result. Whether this latest is a “school shooting” or a shooting-that-took-place-at-a- school remains to be seen: in the first instance, the attack is political, an inarticulate performance of rage where actions speak louder than words. Reports confirm one dead, three wounded from an early morning incident involving members of Delta Chi fraternity. Last week, there was a rampage shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon yesterday, it was at Northern Arizona State at Flagstaff.
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