the scarves of the 2010s were still relatively undomesticated, and had not developed contemporary scarves' larger, flatter, profile. scarves of
this size could not survive in the wild, as they would get tangled on fenceposts, but in captivity they can grow to unparalleled breadth

the problem with capitalism is eventually it destroys all life on earth 😌

it's a beautiful March so far this December

35 is objectively too warm for this time of year in mass

global warming sucks bc it didnt get cold enough for much snow snow but it DID get cold enough to freeze some of the puddles into sidewalk treachery

it's not like the needs those students have don't exist in my class! but the performance their accommodation is scripted towards isn't used in my class, and students have very little support in describing their needs or disabilities "off menu". So official accommodations are kind of a bad system.

"extra time" is off a sort of fixed menu of accommodation options students have relatively little agency in selecting from. every year students tell me that it is their approved accommodation and i tell them i don't have any tests, and we sort of look blankly at each other for a few minutes. fun.

that kind of test has come crashing back because closed-book tests are a way to control for blatant cheating, so we get to do this discourse again. great. i <3 innovation

much larger child is ABSOLUTELY delighted to inform their parent that the next bus is coming in "six-seeeeeven" minutes

this isn't saying students are stupid or bad or lazy, fwiw, it's saying higher ed as an industry has created bad incentives for everyone.

This is a no-win situation for average students and faculty- the skills are real, but the jobs crisis is structural, not personal, and being a customer service professional on, effectively, an at-will employment contract who is -also- asked to navigate ideological minefields- well, ask a barista.

the same rationale that protects a limited number of humanities jobs- transferable "soft skill" training for the workplace- produces students as consumers and faculty as customer service professionals.

even if we bracket political campaigns, your "average" grading faculty member is remarkably vulnerable to students enacting revenge for poor grades. and universities have no material or ideological to back faculty in such a situation