Posted on 03/14/2020 6:12:31 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
These colleges aren’t shutting down, they are just moving the remainder of the semester’s classes online. The lazy little youts will still get their credits.
There is also an article on Boston.com about colleges are handling R&B refunds. This is the sort of thing that most contracts have covered however, such that they may not in this case strictly owe refunds.
All modern colleges have the ability to just finish their classes online. At worst there might be a few labs that can’t be done online.
It should be noted that coronavirus has not caused any deaths in the US in anyone under 50. Therefore the likelihood of any college student dying from it is extremely remote.
As in so many decisions in life, this amounts to a benefit vs. risk issue. I personally think that the benefit of a college student's appropriate education outweighs the risk of a (generally mild) coronavirus infection.
I just posted this thread to see if people out in FR country were willing to buck mentality of the herd as promulgated and stimulated by the out-of-whack mainstream media.
Why don’t you make your links clickable? You put in other html.
“one of her co-workers has the virus”
How is the virus affecting the co-worker?
I am hoarding my HTML and going with the whip’n buggy copy/paste.
LOL...Good one
DIL is going to community college Nursing School, they are shut down to in SCHOOL class work, and clinicals. Think they will do online courses. 60-90 days should see us through this.
Trump needs to do what FDR did CONTROL THE MESSAGE and shut the Yapping MSM, Congress, liberal judges dismissed. Pelosi package includes funds for PP BABIE KILLERS, which has nothing to do with Chinese Coronavirus. Sure she can get it through her controlled House, Senate just has to strangle it. Judges can be dismissed.
Mobilize the 3 main delivery systems into 1 for 90 days, use Drones for air drops. Brewery’s can turn out water, even saline water. Pharmacist can run Flu test first, as many cases in the younger population is Flu. IV Units have been in short supply since 2013 when prices were Jacked up to $400-700 a unit. All hospital and Minor Meds run on short term inventory, for cost reasons. Develop a prepackaged wipe that turns color if you have the virus. These test guns are not great and requires to much contact.
Then he needs to replace the INCOMPETENT LYING CDC DIRECTOR AND CRONIES. LIED ABOUT his DENGUE FEVER, EBOLA PAPERS, AND FAKE OPIOID CRISIS. Replace with the highest accurate EPIDEMIOLOGIST.
SEAL STATE BORDERS, FEDERAL BORDERS. YOU LEAVE YOU CAN’T COME BACK TILL 90 DAY QUARANTINE & DOCUMENTATION. THAT MEANS YOU NAOMI CAMPBELL WHO JETTED OFF TO ITALY BECAUSE SHE SPENT HER FIRST 3 DAYS IN LIFE THERE. Make San Fran wash streets daily. Bulldoze the trash to a burn pit. House the Homeless, after a bath and a set of excess jail/prison coveralls. They have empty warehouses after all.
I was born in Baltimore in ‘48 spent under 6 months there. Have no desire to go back.
Does your daughter really not want the credits for her work this spring?
DIL loathes most of her classmates, they are lower educated from the Memphis school, not nice people. Did nursing home clinicals, and they had no respect for elderly. These are free ride welfare people. Where as she is a Community scholarship/student loan.
I hope she takes this down time to potty train the 2.5 month old granddaughter I keep free for them. What son will do if plant shuts down is limited to UE.
What about kids who live off-campus? Rent is still due but you suddenly are paying for an apartment that you might not even be about to sub-let for 6 months! This is a wake-up call to artificial nature of today's average college education. It's a racket. Pure and simple. If you can do Harvard online now, why pay for the Cambridge experience? The college liberal faculties should take this as a warning because if you can't brainwash kids in a classroom, the whole propaganda model shifts and the indoctrination game just isn't the same.
Great news for the snowflakes. They can go home to their basement bedrooms.
“ It should be noted that coronavirus has not caused any deaths in the US in anyone under 50.”
So far. It has also led to hospitalization, some loss of fertility, and medical bills.
“ I personally think that the benefit of a college student’s appropriate education outweighs the risk of a (generally mild) coronavirus infection.”
Sure, but you are looking at just one side of the coin.
In our country, if they don’t shut down and 1 person dies or is injured -.or gets the Wuhan virus and transmits it to a person who dies... the university will be sued.
Potty train a 2.5 month old?! That has got to be a typo and you meant years not months.
Potty train a 2.5 month old?! That has got to be a typo and you meant years not months.
If this emergency move to all on-line courses proves to be just as effective in most cases as the in-person classes, why do we need brick-and-mortar universities? The universities might be providing the rope to hang themselves. Years ago, I saw a few visionaries talking about the potential victims of a move to on-line commerce and one that was mentioned was universities, particularly smaller state universities and community colleges. Initially defensive about the idea, I realized that it had some merit. This might be the opening that makes the taxpayers see the same thing.
I'm a tenured professor in a real discipline at a large state school but I can see that the traditional university model is antiquated and probably dying off. (I'm somewhat indifferent - I have one foot retirement already, so changes won't really affect me.)
I read something and spewed coffee on my laptop keyboard, ## don’t work keys sticky. Yes 2.5 yr old. I had her dad and uncles trained at 18 months. Then I was a stay at home mom..doing cloth diapers.
Of course it’s true. Online much cheaper and can deliver at least 90% of classes. Yet another reason to get taxpayers out of funding the 5-year spring break that is modern college.
But that 5-year spring break is also what students like about their current “play” college experiences. So they will go for that overwhelmingly as long as we are willing to fund it.
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