I don't understand it either. Sure, it's a pain in a big class sometimes, but we're there to support students, yes? I guess not all profs see it that way
I personally don’t do timed exams, if the time is up they can come to my office and finish, accommodations or no. Better for everyone, I think
Agreed, and AOC has made this point eloquently too
They tell me these are usually professors in the hard sciences (though I’m sure that is not true of many such professors)
On the question of whether colleges offer too many accommodations for disability, a lot of students have told me that many professors just ignore their documented needs
Obviously everybody needs to vote etc etc; I'm voting, I'm canvassing, I'm trying to do my part. But I'm afraid it's going to get us far from where we want to be. Ever thus, I suppose
The other historical analogy that I can't stop thinking about is Dick Cheney's 1% doctrine, in which, after 9/11, Cheney said you had to treat low-probability events as certain threats. To me that looks like part of Netanyahu's psychology. And it was a disaster in both moral and security terms
Blinken rejecting USAID's determination that Israel was preventing humanitarian aid from getting to Palestine reminds me, I am sorry to say, of Kissinger or Reagan making similar assertions about the human rights records of Argentina or El Salvador www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had de...
He asks if the vague hints of changes should satisfy the doctor who treated children without anesthesia in Gaza. Absolutely not! That's why I put her voice, quite prominently, in the piece
I don't think Tim's reading of what I wrote is very generous. Both of the pieces he refers to are not 'moving the goalposts' but describing that many people supporting the Harris campaign are not satisfied with Biden's Gaza policy