At some point as a grad student I discovered that for the things I was already fairly proficient at, I was my own best tutor. And that I really needed classes in the things I was not yet quite as proficient at.

Not to say that that's true for everyone, but...

To be fair, not all of them. Administrators, on the other hand, have a penchant for being cowards in red state America. This sort of reaction by the admin would simply not fly in other states, regardless of how strongly a particular dept did or didn't support their grad TAs.

Sadly, the location seems to make a difference in how administrators treat professors and graduate TAs in these situations (i.e. badly and with disrespect). I would not want to be employed in Texas or Oklahoma. This kind of reaction by the admin wouldn't fly in many other states.

Unfortunately, it's a perennial problem in academia. It never goes away, but eventually the intensity of that stress diminishes.

Also, speaking as a former undergrad, grad, and postdoc... Eventually, *you'll* have undergrads, grads, and postdocs who can do at least some of what you're not doing.

Marsha, that word does not mean what you think it means.

"Hegseth" and "nuanced" in the same sentence is a tell.

I give it one or two Kimmels at most. Then again, it's Texas...