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

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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.