In her paper,
How to Write as Felt: Touching Transmaterialities and More-Than-Human Intimacies, University of Toronto scholar Stephanie Springgay suggests that felt, a “dense material of permanently interlocking fibres,” can be linked to racism and capitalism.
It’s those “cis-heteronormative White supremacist settler colonial logics,” you see. And the “queer self-touching,” obviously.
Professor links felt - yes, the material - to white supremacy - The College Fix
'K as a teacher, I apologize for this abject mess. All I can say is: this is Canada, but I fear the US is not far behind.
Some professors of ed are just failed teachers. This would seem to be one. Because this is garbage, straight up. Best thing her students could do is GET OUT of her classroom and get into some real classrooms, because this felt garbage is not going to equal a warm puddle of spit once actual K-12 students are waiting to be impressed. High school students would snicker right in the face of this, God bless them.
How ridiculous.
Don't worry, there are plenty of retards like this and worse posing as teachers and professors right here in the US.
Oh believe me, as far as K-12 goes, fewer all the time. Fewer going into it, fewer staying. And I don't blame them not one bit. Because if you think teachers are "retards" (I don't like that name but whatever), you should see some of the adults we deal with as parents. And lots of lots of teachers are just saying I don't get paid enough to put up with this, especially in the very low-paying states. And as a teacher with over two-decades experience, I don't blame them one bit.
Don't get me wrong, there are bad teachers out there. But as society devolves, everything is getting worse, including kids' behavior and, worst of all, the behavior of adults. Wait 'til you see what's in the classroom in about ten years. You will WISH you had the teachers back we have now.
Homeschooling and private school is on the rise. Our children's school enrollment is up sharply this year
Parents see what's going on.
As I said in another thread, homeschooling stats and success rates are going to go down, if they haven't already. Homeschooling used to be the bastion of highly involved parents, and that was part of its great success rate. But no more. Now, if your child is old enough to stay home alone and fairly tech-savvy (and what child isn't), you can be a negligent parent and "homeschool" with the advent of free online schools just about everywhere.
I'd like to see homeschooling communities address this more but, typically, they just act defensive--VERY defensive. That, and the rising incidents of people hiding abuse by "homeschooling" their kids. The incidents of this are very small, but it does happen. But again homeschoolers tend to be very defensive. It's this tendency in fact that stopped me from being a vocal advocate of homeschooling. I just got burnt too many times, and judged too many times, INSIDE the church.
The Babylon Bee has roasted homeschoolers for this, so you might think they would climb down a little bit but it is what it is.
(By the way I'm not saying YOU have done any of this. I don't know you. But I have been interacting with homeschooling parents for years and years, going out of the schools, coming into the schools, in church and online. But i don't know you so this is not a personal accusation)