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Full professorships, irrespective of institution eliteness, are a tough job to get. If I were the provost, I'd just sack the folks who refuse to show up to wor
by jgalt212 6y ago
Full professorships, irrespective of institution eliteness, are a tough job to get. If I were the provost, I'd just sack the folks who refuse to show up to work this fail. Most of them would be very easy replace (certainly if you value teaching skills over research skills).
Furthermore, the health risk to professors is much lower than it is to primary school teachers. 20 year olds can wear* masks for 45-90 minutes at a clip, 2nd graders won't be able to do that for six hours straight.
* or legally forced to, as they are adults.
- nr2x 6y agoAs recent weeks have shown 20 year olds will be going to bars and parties and seeding new waves of infections. The vast majority of people in their age group have negligible mortality risk, and high incentives to socialize after being stuck at home with parents for months on end. The faculty on the other hand are in the demographic where COVID is a death sentence.
- jlokier 6y agoAnd when they don't die, it can ruin their academic & intellectual lives by making them long-term ill & disabled, including neurologically. Some of the lingering symptoms are nasty.