[aidenn0]

> Suffice to say, I got the message

And this is at least part of why I don't do well in academia (and, tbf, many other settings); I refuse to get the message.

[dmvdoug]

I had a different objective: get my MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching), get certified in my state and get a job at a secondary school. They were threatening to throw a monkey-wrench at me. It wasn’t worth the trouble.

Had I been a history graduate student, on the other hand, I very well have fought that fight, because it represents a significant problem in the field of academic history.