Thread by @NancySlavin1

I love this quote. I also loved teaching writing and English at the comm. college level and I don't know how to "go after" that anymore because being an #adjunct is just not a livable job, especially as I age and am a mom. But, I was the kindest, most generous and loving then.

https://twitter.com/alisonrand/status/1437135033026945025

I'm replying to myself because I'm crying and I need to express rather than get depressed. On Thursday, I accepted a non-teaching job because I, like most people in capitalism, need an income (two-income family of pretty modest means), to, you know, eat, etc. Then today...1/

I get an email, on a SATURDAY, from the comm. college I'd like to teach at asking if I can #adjunct two WR 121 classes for fall term, starting 9/27. I could do this. I've taught MANY WR 121 classes and would LOVE to do this, but this kind of WORK-LIFE is not sustainable...2/

for me, my family, and for the students. How great a course would I create with only a week of unpaid (of course) time to do it? Even though I have a lot of tricks, this comm. college uses a specific book that I'd have to learn, it's online, which is a lot of set-up....3/

so it's just not enough notice to create a quality class. I could wing it, sure, I've certainly done that before. But these courses are for fall term. What happens winter and, especially, spring? Will I have an income? Probably not. I am too old for this shit of #adjuncting...4/

But I want you tweeps to know I am so SAD about this fact. That I do not have a full-time steady job at a comm. college (the level I love, the community education I truly believe in) where I can just encourage student to write their most authentic stories, essays and lives...4/

is only fractionally circumstantial. My personal sadness is mostly the outcome of the adjunctification, which is the same as the corporatization, of higher education. WSC Capitalism is creating the anti-CRT world so that no one can get a quality education on purpose...5/

When I was in high school in the 80s, I had an English teacher I loved so much and I said to him (after two years being his student) that I'd probably become an English teacher because of him. Because he taught me to think critically. He was a unicorn of a teacher who loved....6/

to teach American studies/literature, and asked us to write thoughtfully about the American Dream and the American Hero and I just wanted to be like him. And for a long time (16 years), I did my best as an #adjunct to teach with the love and thoughtfulness he did, but now...7/

I'm moving on and, well, I'm still super sad to make the choice for some stability over my true love of teaching. I wish for our country to make comm. college available for all, with livable wages and more than one-term contracts (i.e. FTE steady employment) for instructors...8/

I wish for comm. colleges to be places where we value community over profit, see critical-thinking as vital for the common-wealth, recognize education not for capitalistic propaganda but for the propagation of human and environmental health and creativity. ✨#adjunctstories end/

@threadreaderapp could you please unroll this thread for me (and me alone apparently). Thanks.