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Lab classes should at least be performed. It feels like the professors care more about alleviating 100% of their own personal risk than the thousands of student
by jimmaswell 6y ago
Lab classes should at least be performed. It feels like the professors care more about alleviating 100% of their own personal risk than the thousands of students whose educations and livelihoods are on the line. Set up some plexiglass borders, open the windows, take some other precautions, but there has to be a tradeoff at some point in my opinion.
- alexbanks 6y agoI don't think high risk people should "consider the tradeoff" at all. Of course they're interested in alleviating their own personal risk...do you understand what's they're risking? Would you show up to work if you were 70, just because some students wanted to take bio?
- jimmaswell 6y agoThere's an old adage about planting trees you know you won't live to sit in the shade of, but unfortunately it's not a popular sentiment these days. Merely administering lab classes isn't even that risky. Doesn't even necessarily involve being in the same room at the same time. So yes, I'd show up and do what had to be done.
- alexbanks 6y agoI think there's a kind of adorable naivety to equating planting a tree with administering a lab at an American college. If you yourself are conceding a professor "doesn't even necessarily involve being in the same room at the same time", then A.) Why does the professor even have to do it at all, as opposed to say, a young, not at risk grad student?, and B.) Does it really "need to be done" ? My professors were totally uninvolved from my labs. They would define them in advance, but each lab was administered by a grad student. Professors being uninvolved with labs isn't new or exciting.