I've been seeing a wave of evidence of burnout in my students the last few weeks, and reports I'm hearing from other faculty at my college suggest I'm not alone.
The second half of the Spring 2020 semester was pretty much a writeoff in my classes, but we were mostly on track and functioning in the fall. This semester? A lot more students starting to fall through the cracks.
I think the anniversary of the lockdown hit a lot of students really hard—when we went online in March 2020, it was presented as a temporary measure. Now we're well past a year with no end in sight.
(CUNY is nowhere close to an announcement of a return to in-person classes at this point. I'm expecting I'll most likely be teaching entirely online this fall, and I wouldn't be surprised if it extended past that.)
I'm doing pretty well as a teacher, I think, all things considered, but I'm hearing stories about faculty who are completely checked out—not returning emails, Zoom teaching with their cameras off and students muted, rejecting reasonable requests for accommodation out of hand.
And of course if you, as a student, have one professor like that, your ability to function in the rest of your classes is going to take a hit, too.

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