Texas professor dismissed after recommending students mask

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A professor at Collin College says his contract won’t be renewed because he spoke publicly about the school’s COVID-19 protocols.

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What happened: Last August, Phillips tweeted a photo of a presentation from the administration that said faculty and staff could not request, require or recommend students wear a mask.

While lecturing about the 1918 influenza epidemic, Phillips says, he instructed students to “think about the consequences of what you’re doing and the risks you might pose to your community.”

Phillips tells Axios that school administrators suggested he say he was leaving voluntarily to “construct a narrative” that avoided negative attention.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-professor-dismissed-recommending-students-122016678.html

[walkingman]

1. That Dallas area seems to have a lot of right-wing wackos?

[harumph]

3. Not really - it's this college in particular.

Dallas as a whole leans blue.

[walkingman]

4. I know the city proper is blue but the news is full

of insurrectionists, beauty parlor operators, and even the Oathkeeper dude who are simply insane. I think the Ft. Worth area is also full of these folks. Being originally from Houston, I never cared for Dallas....especially after Jerry Jones (from Arkansas) bought the Cowboys. I put him in the same category as Sid Miller.....asshole.

[spooky3]

2. It's a public college. These professors have some Constitutional

Protections of their free speech. Seems this community college has violated the rights of multiple professors: https://www.chronicle.com/article/days-after-settling-a-lawsuit-a-texas-college-ousts-another-outspoken-professor

[rockfordfile]

5. So they're trying to censor something that's true