Retired computer programmer who is now a Volunteer Naturalist and Volunteer Ranger for local and state parks. And I play hockey to try to stay in shape.
I view the protest as a shot across the bow. The warning about how much impact the changes are going to cause if Reddit doesn’t back off. Reddit management has gone with “damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead”. It is the next round that is going to indicate whether mods and users are really ready to bail.
The whole point of swearing on the bible was to get God to be involved in enforcing the oath. So your disbelief may negate this aspect. On the gripping hand, you also swear in front of a government representative to get the gubmint involved in enforcing the oath. And if it is in their interest to enforce the oath; they will. With guns if necessary.
1 - Tenure just got thrown out.
To implement these reforms, the superintendent is requiring every employee in the 29 schools, from the janitor to the principal, to reapply for their job.
2 - No libraries.
Miles has said that librarians will likely be eliminated—because, in his view, their job consists only of “checking out books,”
3 - Fire Brigade method of staffing.
“He seems to be taking an approach that’s based on the idea of equity, the idea of finding the strongest educators in the entire district and moving them to the campuses that have the greatest number of students with unmet needs.”
4 - Big Brother comes to the classroom. Not mentioned was the additional staffing to watch monitors and “disciplinary enforcers” needed to remove poorly behaving students and watch them in the separate room.
a strict disciplinary regime enforced by cameras in every classroom.
At this point I am going into Reddit to figure out which of my subscriptions I want to find a different way to access. So either I am finding a similar magazine in kbin or I’m moving the source to my RSS aggregator (Feedly).
Interestingly, as I bounce in to do a look/see, I’m seeing a whole lot less interesting content. So the moderator “revolt” is having a big effect for me.
Using Firefox on a Windows 11 box in kbin.social: Next to my username is a bulleted list icon. Hovering on that pulls up a list:
Subscribed
Moderated
Favorites
All
Selecting Subscribed brings me to //kbin.social/sub. This seems to be what you want.
I have a pick’em up truck in my driveway.