Alaina and Claire consider how chronic illness impacts learning, and how education systems can improve to enhance access and promote understanding.
- Claire is back (along with Wyatt and Luna)!
- Alaina is on medical leave, has moved out of Boston, and is getting ready for grad school (hopefully!)
- Random tangent: Should over-anxious Wyatt consider a career change?
- Claire reflects on her experience with chronic illness through grade school and college, and considers when she chose to use her accommodations. They discuss how that choice is indicative of privilege, even in the chronic illness space.
- In academics, financial privilege continues to play a huge role and excludes people who rely on jobs for health insurance or family stability.
- School also rewards people for their attendance, which perpetuates the idea that our health doesn't need to be a priority.
- Similarly, school rewards performance alone, without taking a student's full context into consideration.
- Lastly, Alaina and Claire question how much our education system truly prepares us to work and live in a collaborative, diverse world.
