“It’s like our voices aren’t being heard.”
Well Dearie, You are probably in a lecture hall with 100 or more fellow students. The poor TA can hardly be expected to hear you from that very back level. Speak up!
P.S. It’s not that you are not being heard. It’s just that you want shut up; so you get tuned out.
in the 80s as a student at KU i asked a professor for information as I had a work-related class attendance problem he told me that it was my problem to keep up.