Thread by @thurgoodhamer

So, she wasn't a good teacher?

Students be:
- busy
- tired
- overwhelmed

Some be:
- academically underprepared
- reading but not understanding

What she decided was she was only gonna "teach" those who were already prepared and motivated. And she got paid well to do it. Smh.

You're assigning dense and fraught English and feminist scholars' texts that titillate you but that require a different reading skill than what students are taught and then consider them apathetic when they give up on doing something you never taught them to do?

I'm very glad I taught high school before going to grad school and that I did a full teacher preparation program while in undergrad because teaching is an art form that requires planning, staging, practice, marketing, and performance for an audience of diverse learners.

Their apathy toward reading your brand of scholarship might reflect your apathy toward reading pedagogy.

We can talk about sexual harassers in the academy all day. But this kind of attitude towards students yields a whole bunch of harm inside and outside of the classroom and is a lot more common.

Not Feminist Pedagogy (journal) putting out a Call for Papers for a special issue when hooks failed to practice what she preached (she wrote about feminist failures to teach literacy but left the classroom because she didn't want to teach literacy??🙃). I--