i can't seem to help it, especially in this intro to sociology class. am i being short sighted for clearly displaying familiarity with, and affection for, marx? like..what happens to these discussion posts, and our papers for that matter? where do they go? do the capitalists get them?
Haha, I had a baby thumb as a student one time. This was during covid so I never had to interact with the guy, but he sure did have a thin blue line flag right behind him whenever he was on Zoom. At the end of the semester he was right on the line between a B and a C and I would have given him the C, just for being a chud, but unfortunately, I'd given a few other borderline cases the higher grade, so my teaching supervisor was like, why not bump this guy's grade up too? And I could hardly say, umm, he's a blue lives matter fuckhead, so he ended up with a B. If I hadn't been a grad student though, baby thumb would have gotten a C because of my ideological biases. And that should be unprofessional and shitty, but I honestly can't find the energy to care. Don't put a hate flag up behind where you're sitting on Zoom, shithead.
Damn, yeah, marking is so much worse when you have someone moderating every paper. I remember my first year teaching and it took fucking forever. When you no longer have someone over your shoulder, sometimes you just have to follow your heart and give a chud the lower grade. I've fortunately not had too many in my classes (or at least not vocal ones), although I did have one student that I thought was sound suddenly out themselves in class as a generation identitare loser, which sucked