September 26, 2019

Partially exquisite, partially infuriating day off. Went looking for bookshelves to store the books I have to remove from my office. A comedy of errors.

Received a note about some students from the “accommodations office,” saying that certain ones have been granted “accommodations” for wandering the halls at class time, coming in late, missing class, not turning in the assignments– things that used simply to be called “bad behavior.” I will not live (or my career as an academic will not live) to see the pendulum swing back toward some notion of discipline and accountability. You want to cry out about it in a story or a play, but the official stance is so spinelessly absurd no one will credit it outside of academia, and no one in the world will credit it in five years.