A student just wrote “My grandmother died this morning. I’m not asking for any extensions. Just want you to understand why my posts may not seem as engaged. I don’t want you to think I don’t care about your class.”

What have we done to each other??

Why are we training young ppl to believe that feelings are distractions from productivity?

Stop making people believe that grief is weakness

I did write back “You don’t have to ask. But you can have extensions. We will get through the rest of this semester together. I’m so sorry for your losshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏽" title="Folded hands (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (medium skin tone)">”

Maybe they just want to keep busy. But I don’t ever want a student to feel guilt for needing a pause.