I mean, I still love education.

I think teaching is great.

It's amazing.

James Tierney is an associate professor of economics at Penn State.

But not for long.

He submitted his resignation in August.

Me resigning or at the very least, like, leaving for another job has been on my mind for a while.

There's a lot that's eating at James right now, but his biggest complaint is that his school,

Penn State, is not requiring people on campus to be vaccinated this fall, even though

the school is requiring a return to in-person teaching.

Penn State leadership says most students are vaccinated, but James isn't comforted by that.

We don't know who is vaccinated.

Even if they give us the numbers like they have, that it's around 80%.

In a classroom with 300 students, that's still 60 unvaccinated students that are there. I don't want to say,

hey, work with your neighbors if they don't know who they are, if they are or are not vaccinated,

and if they're wearing a mask correctly. And, you know, I'm not going to lie that it is frustrating

to have to be policing the mandate. Every time a student doesn't wear their mask, I have to talk to

I'd say, hey, don't forget, you have to wear a mask if you're inside.

If Penn State is so against a vaccine mandate, why can't they let professors teach classes

online again, like they did last year? This is one question James has. And he can guess the

answer. It's because the students want to go back to campus.

And the student's tuition money is what keeps the school running. So all of these things just like,

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