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I need students and other junior academics to understand that faculty are going through the pandemic too, we are human, and demanding inhumane capacity to seem like we are not enhances the very forced that in turn are so damaging to students when applied in the other direction.
It’s truly unhelpful to assume that people are out to screw you when things don’t happen on your expected timeline. You don’t know if someone just died. If they’re teaching with two kids at home. You don’t know.
Faculty don’t show up in class and say, “My dad is an essential worker, and I am so terrified that I can’t sleep at night.” But we are expected to perform as if none of that is happening.
We all need to have a much bigger spirit of generosity with each other.
We all need to have a much bigger spirit of generosity with each other.
I have taught through parts of my home community burning & having to support family that had to flee their home & worrying about others who are essential workers, all of them in high risk “if they get COVID, they will probably die” groups
And I’ve had it easy compared to many
And I’ve had it easy compared to many