Looks like I'm likely to lose a summer teaching gig because I won't/can't commute to a campus to teach in person. I managed to hold a fairly well-attended and well-received online-only course for two years but the organization is pushing hard to eliminate online teaching.
I am a low-vision person and cannot legally drive a car. This campus is far enough away from me that even if I wanted to I could not commute there(1). This mad push to make everything in-person again has numerous consequences for #accessibility, even for relatively privileged people like me.
#teaching #online #lowvision
(1) I don't want to because #COVIDIsNotOver and their #COVID mitigations are poor-to-nonexistent
I am a low-vision person and cannot legally drive a car. This campus is far enough away from me that even if I wanted to I could not commute there(1). This mad push to make everything in-person again has numerous consequences for #accessibility, even for relatively privileged people like me.
#teaching #online #lowvision
(1) I don't want to because #COVIDIsNotOver and their #COVID mitigations are poor-to-nonexistent
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The backlash to get everyone "back in" is really a lot deeper than most people realize. It's not relegated to positions that went virtual recently.
I've worked from home since 2015 and there's been a push to get me "into the office" this year, for the first time ever. My wife teaches at a school that's done virtual teaching since the late 90's, never had in-person events before, but has been pushing them on both teachers and students beginning this school year.
I wish you luck finding, and keeping, a virtual teaching job. They're out there, but becoming more and more rare, unfortunately. The real irony is that they're becoming more rare as the statistics seem to show more students and parents looking for virtual schooling than ever before.
I didn't realize that the back to office push was bleeding into positions that always had been remote.
I suppose you know this already but the statistics show that not just teachers and students but workers generally want and prefer remote options by a pretty large margin. People are more or less screaming for this kind of flexibility, and we're being met with "get back in the dang office". I think this tells you it's more of a power play than any kind of rational decisionmaking on the part of the powers that be.