I hate this take. I'm so tired of the attitude that student behavior occurs in a vacuum. How you treat students makes a world of difference in how much they try to "game" you/your class. & the stressors our students manage today far outstrip those we had even a decade or two ago.https://twitter.com/AcerbicAcademic/status/1092443078789603328 …
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Whilst I agree with the the first bit, I’m not sure about the final claim. I’m remembering the strategies we used to use to get food, like hanging around as the market closed to collect the thrown-away veg, & I recall living for 2 months on nothing but donated rice & stock cubes.
I did a PhD while attempting to work full-time (mainly in the caring professions - nursing, residential social work). At one point I was so poor - having been hammered by the poll tax - I was living *quite literally* on a loaf of bread, block of cheese & pint of milk per week.
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Yeah nothing I said was predicated on a claim that we had it easy. But at least when I was an undergrad (late 90s) I wasn't watching the adults in the room collectively shrug & do nothing while the planet I lived on was being destroyed, I had hopes of a career (not a gig), etc
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Well, mid-1980s UK was a bit tougher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession#United_Kingdom …
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