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teaching evaluations are vile
professors are cops and therefore any positive evaluation makes you a bootlicker sellout; but negative evaluation is futile complaining to the police dep bureaucracy
in either case, you’re also just filling out a consumer survey and greasing the wheels of capital
original post was largely partial to student’s pov, but reviews also obviously reinforce every existing prejudice on the teacher’s end. there’s a whole lot of precarity in academic work and reviews make you complicit in economic oppression.
even if participating in ousting a genuinely abusive instructor, the position of authority that enables, facilitates, and produces abuse remains intact. and using the masters tools of university administrators brings you no closer to abolishing this power relation.