Grades are in, with only one missing paper that hopefully they’ll get to me before their Incomplete turns into an F. Everyone else managed to get their work in and do a decent job with it, but many of my students are clearly still struggling.
It’s a good thing I only have two small classes, because there was a lot of hand-holding this semester to get some of them over the finish line. I couldn’t possibly have done that with a large lecture class, or even four sections of freshman comp.
I think we’re still seeing pandemic effects, and I don’t know for how much longer. It’s kind of exhausting as a teacher, to be honest. But no doubt at least as exhausting for the students. Hopefully we can all stagger to a place of rest together.