Some educators are so hung up on "pandemic learning loss." Yes we have to reset expectations. But maybe we should also talk about the fact that high risk students are being told "screw you go die" every day and a bunch of our students now have long term brain damage. 1/5
Maybe we should also talk about the fact that unis SHOULD be centers for research, meaningful science, and policy guidance, and yet higher ed has failed en masse at all three of those (not a great look). 2/5
Perhaps we should talk about the fact that we teach about things like cognitive dissonance, and history of medicine, and public health approaches. We have the knowledge and yet in crisis the academy folded in an effort to cling to normalcy. Pot, kettle kind of praxis here. 3/5
If we care about belonging, then we have to care about high risk academics. If we care about public health, we have to follow basic science. If we care about righting past wrongs and preventing tragedy, then we have to commit to following mitigation strategies. 4/5
Historians often claim that we study the past to unpack harms and learn about how and why they happened. We do so in the hopes we can DO and BE better than our predecessors. Is that just a lie we feed ourselves? Or are we actually going to be better? 5/5 #CovidIsNotOver
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