I covered the article being critiqued here, simply running an outline and suggesting it needed a longer treatment. Happily, Alex Usher has stepped in and provided the necessary treatment. He writes, "the kicker here, to my mind is the author's rhetorical question 'what would COVID-19 era teaching look like if educational institutions made decisions about teaching on the basis of pedagogy instead of neoliberal fiscal policy?', which is almost certainly the most asinine suggestion I've seen in 25 years of working in Canadian higher education." After all, says Usher, COVID-era teaching looks the way it does because there's a "virus out there that has killed 7,800 Canadians, not because of neoliberalism." My response might lack some of the colourful language that Usher's has, but believe me, my sentiment here is the same.
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