#Coronacation Is A Lie

[rynling]

These Are Not Conditions in Which to Thrive
https://elladawson.com/2020/03/22/these-are-not-conditions-in-which-to-thrive/

This is not going to be inspiring or invigorating—it will be terrible. It already is terrible. Here in the United States, it’s a totally predictable worst-case scenario come to life during a corrupt and incompetent Presidential administration. This will fundamentally change our world, and in the short term, that change is for the worst. People are already dying. The economy is tanking. Families are fighting and grieving and separated and afraid. A billion little tragedies play out behind closed doors every single day. It is too much for the human mind to process and too much for the heart to handle.

These are not conditions in which to thrive. Just get through the damn day. If that’s all you accomplish, that’s enough.

Thank god people are finally starting to spread this message.

I've had a number of students write to thank me for being so accommodating during the transition to online classes. I don't think I'm doing anything special, but apparently a lot of professors have settled into an "everyone needs to work harder now" mentality. What the fuck. What. The actual living fuck.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

First off, this Ella Dawson seems amazing and I've spent an hour scrolling through the website. A+ quality content right there.

Second off, I have a bit of an anecdote I wanted to share now that you've mentioned online classes. Back in my senior year of high school (the olden days of 2005), I was more or less a TA for a couple of English teachers. One of them I wasn't a particular fan of, but it was my last semester, so whatever. She had me doing a project for her that was a slideshow for the retiring teachers that year. The plan was to show it during at some retirement party, blah blah blah. Well I finished it and proceeded to get sick. Like legit sick and not Karen Smith from Mean Girls "sick". But I had the presentation at home. So I emailed the file to my teacher, because then she could have it and show it at the party thing. So everything's ok, right? Right?

When I came back on Monday, I she pulled me aside in the hallway and had this five minute lecture about how what I did (emailing her the document) was absolutely unacceptable. She said something about how that wasn't going to fly once I went to college and it was immature and lazy and blah blah blah. All I said was, "...so, were you able to play it at the party?" To which she said yes and I just kind of shrugged.

And then fast forward to my first semester in college, where my English 101 asked us to email her our papers, because it was easier for her to grade them that way and I still haven't recovered from how fucking hard I laughed knowing fuckface in high school would be rolling in her figurative grave over that.

And I'm cackling now, because I know she would've had a stroke if she was told to move all her classes online, too. Thus I had to share my amusement. For reasons.

Lastly, what the fuck??? Work harder?????? Ah, yes, we're in crisis mode and kids are shoved off campus last minute and might have shitty living situations while also dealing with the possible constant depression and anxiety of the situation. Prime time to fucking crank it to 11, amirite? ಠ_ಠ

[lassarina]

All of those professors need to fuck right off.