Its a cyclical thing. Teachers feel self-important by adding them to flaunt how progressive they are, and to give themselves protection against that one student who will overreact and ruin months of everyone's lives over "distress" caused by it.
Its that same old throwaway legal shield concept, where its meaningless babble to protect against one random idiot that everyone knows will take advantage of it otherwise. And in this case, its only happening because we haven't beat these kids enough to make them not act like that.
I'm starting to think that these trigger warnings are more for the teacher than the student.
Its a cyclical thing. Teachers feel self-important by adding them to flaunt how progressive they are, and to give themselves protection against that one student who will overreact and ruin months of everyone's lives over "distress" caused by it.
Its that same old throwaway legal shield concept, where its meaningless babble to protect against one random idiot that everyone knows will take advantage of it otherwise. And in this case, its only happening because we haven't beat these kids enough to make them not act like that.