I was grading for Spanish courses taught to the language requirement, trying to recover from dealing with these peoples’ behavior, exhausted and bored and drained, and listening to NPR where they are interviewing a professor on a political situation in a country.
Z: I would rather be that professor.
In Reeducation this thought would have been considered arrogant and entitled, how dare you aspire to such things.
I do not understand this attitude. I just do not think it is good for one’s brain to drain it. I will establish lower, yet stricter standards and fail more students. I will read more things like H-Net every day and live in an even more virtual world. I will stare at every piece of writing that cites me and every preface that lists me in acknowledgements, and breathe life into myself.
Z: I would rather not even have to invent these tactics. But if I must….
Perhaps significant: I notice that the great majority of the students of the chaotic type, want to go into counseling or corrections as careers. There is the contingent that want to be housewives or wedding planners, but the men and the Black women, the people who expect to work for a living, want to go into counseling or corrections.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 