Neverwhere is where I stepped off the Gaiman hype-train. The things I liked were Sandman and Stardust, and everything that came later just felt empty, like an imitation of his earlier work. It honestly makes me wonder if there was at least one ghost writer for Sandman; the quality drop is so stark.

The Hat Man, night hags, and the entities people see while using DMT are all fascinating because they are such widely shared experiences.

Again, it's apples and oranges.

Schoolwork isn't a one-to-one analogue for work-work.

What's equal isn't always "fair."

We can't control the "fairness" of the circumstances of a person's birth or the trials they face, so we make allowances to balance the scale when it's *reasonable* to do so.

Are you sure the length of an exam isn't based primarily upon, essentially, the school's bell schedule?

Is finishing a battery of questions within 50-75 minutes really a meaningful metric of success? Is it an explicit learning objective?

If a student has a disability that affects focus, what then?

What is wrong with that?

In other words, is your goal to assess your students' learning, or is your goal to assess how quickly they can complete an exam?

"Easily attained without merit" seems like a wild claim based on a brief review of your institution's criteria for validating accommodations.

Also, I'm sure that lots of people make accommodations for you and your tediousness, whether or not you're aware they do.

One's performance doing a timed assessment isn't equivalent to one's performance drafting a report. Even if it were, people get extensions in "real life" all the time.

That sucks so bad. I'm sorry.

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Content like that just shouldn't exist.

Costco has Big Justice on their side.

"The title of 1983 film WarGames is spelled with three A's..."

It's pretty hard to believe that the standard policies for due process were followed for either the instructor or the student in this instance.

"Shock The (Martian) Monkey"

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."