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A person whose voice I truly respect reached out feeling a bit perplexed by what she saw as a dissonance in this new piece by me.

So a brief (hopefully?) thread addressing those points.

chronicle.com/article/will-m…
Namely, she felt like the first half (on avoidance) was written by someone she wouldn't tend to agree with, and echoed points from the #toxicrigor/anti-trigger-warning crowd.

But loved the second half, and thought it read like "me."
I think part of the dissonance is that it is a bit of a strange position to take, at the same time both pro- and anti-MH breaks.

Namely, I’m all for breaks of all sorts, and for creating structural change that support them.

For students, for faculty, for humans.
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I don't disagree with anything in this piece. What I find really interesting is the assumption that those of us who are advocating for caring pedagogy, grounded in a balance b/t support and challenge, have at any point become less rigorous.

#HigherEd
#ToxicRigor
And that to me is the mark of #ToxicRigor. When someone points to flexibility, humanizing, and support and says, "You're dumbing things down" or "You've sacrificed rigor," there's just no evidence of that, so something else is up.

#HigherEd
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