I’ve had a combat veteran make sure I understood he needed a seat in a far corner—where he could see the doorway at all times./2
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I’ve taught the history of the Holocaust in a class where a student had just disclosed that her father was murdered a week before the semester started./3
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I’ve had a military veteran apologize for missing class due to a court date related to anger management problems./4
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I’ve had excellent students suddenly struggle just to get to class after experiencing sexual violence or the suicide of a friend during the semester./5
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I’ve had a student call me in tears after she forgot to complete an exam—a side effect of her cancer treatment. She was trying to finish her college degree in the time she had left as an example to the granddaughter she was raising./6
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These kinds of stories are *typical* for instructors at America’s colleges—that is, the ones most students attend. Indeed, I’ve mostly taught in relatively privileged circumstances./7
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So when questions of “sensitivity” and “political correctness” on campus come up … maybe don’t take the claims of reactionaries working at (for example) NYU’s business school at face value./8
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And—speaking as somebody who takes a lot of pride in delivering vivid lectures—if any professor claims that so-called trigger warnings will spoil the dramatic effect of his teaching… you can safely disregard anything he has to say about pedagogy./9
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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