• Flying Squid
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    31 year ago

    That’s really sad. I’m really sorry to hear it. I know my dad was always disappointed that neither my brother nor I went into academia, but it sounds like we made the right choice.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      If one were to ignore the getting a position part, other changes include but are not limited to:

      -an increase in people killing teachers/students/staff at nearly all levels of learning institutions. It’s not limited to the US and guns either (although they do make up a large portion).

      -an increase in students showing outright disrespect or violence in a classroom to anyone but especially authority figures.

      -due to the pandemic many teachers/staff died or retired, so there was a loss of guidance/mentors/knowledge as well as changes in policy/how things function.

      -the abysmal shift in school work accessability during the pandemic created a general lack of knowledge/routine that would have formerly taken place during that time period. This means instead of being able to teach roughly the same curriculum for each class/each semester as one may have done for years, one must instead rework the course for a few grade(s) lower to accommodate the difference or fail a lot of kids that don’t have home support. (Additionally some teachers were already having to incrementally adjust curriculum each year since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted).

      -teachers/professor have been villainized in recent years by politicians and general pay/funding/grants have decreased (or rather never increased as the years changed).

      -tenure tracks are going away in some places.

      -the school or university could simply shutdown for numerous reasons in the middle of the semester with little to no notice given staff/teachers/students.

      • Flying Squid
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        21 year ago

        Sounds like it’s more than beyond time for non-tenured professors to unionize.