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Some weeks are heavier than others

Some weeks are heavier than others

a word on teaching in times of crisis

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Thomas Kneeland, MA, MFA
Feb 27, 2025
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I’m here today because I’m unsure of which breaths to breathe. None of them are promised and, yet, voices from the zenith of our nation have promised a day where liberties will be stripped away. And as a professor—a teacher—I often struggle with the conversations I feel obligated to have with my students as I teach them composition & rhetoric, appreciat…

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