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Old 06-06-2015, 06:56 PM
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Default Re: Fucking education! How does it work?

I know we talked about the Laura Kipnis article on a different thread, but this is more about education and less about gender. Happened upon an interesting article and its rebuttal while reading a movie review. They both address the precarious situation adjunct teachers are in but come at it from different directions. The first says he and many of his colleagues are self-censoring madly to avoid complaints from students. The second responds that it's obviously the administrators that are the problem if people are worried they will lose their jobs for teaching controversial topics. I think reading the two together makes it very clear that labor/employee rights effect everything and the lack of them hurts all our rights. Makes me want to push for unions even harder.
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