OP-ED: Trigger warnings don’t protect students, they make education worse

Brock Schnurr writes, “There was no clear evidence that trigger warnings help psychologically vulnerable people manage their mental state. Nor do they improve learning.”

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Author: Brock Schnurr

Brock Schnurr is an Owen Sound, Ontario-born author, essayist and educator currently based in Singapore, and a regular contributor to C2C Journal.

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