faerietnk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
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Please include me.
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Hi Eliza! I'm an English professor, teach at a public university in PA, originally from NYC, CUNY proud, first-gen American, first-gen college grad, taught high school while I finished the PhD, really sad these days, and hoping things will change one day.
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Also, bc their devices in HS were set to be easy, everything was automated. For example, if they used Google Classroom, files automatically linked. They also didn't have to log into anything. Many did not know how to turn their devices on or off & they had no idea what "control+alt+delete" was for.
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I initially give them the benefit of the doubt bc my university uses D2L, which I abhor bc it is not user-friendly, but as someone who taught high school during the pandemic, many students would submit blank files bc their other teachers would give 100% completion credit without opening the files.
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But I also know students often get grammar rules forced on them that I don't agree with....especially old ones that don't necessarily need to be followed. Not to start drama, but can we talk about splitting infinitives? Bc I use them all the time and keep getting yelled at for it.
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Having taught in both spaces, I'm wondering if she's targeting a specific grammar issue in the fastest way possible due to teaching constraints? For example, I tell students they are not allowed to start sentences with "This" That" "It" bc of vagueness and fragments that has become very common.
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I did something wrong.. see new post for corrected link!