Posted on 08/05/2020 8:42:33 AM PDT by C19fan
A Yale University student from Ohio has launched a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League university, demanding the school return tuition payments after deciding to keep classes online in response to the pandemic.
Jonathan Michel, a soon-to-be third year student from Wooley, Ohio, said the prestigious university 'effectively breached or terminated the contract' it had with students 'who paid for the opportunity to participate fully in the academic life on the Yale campus.'
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Covid law suits are going to be prohibited.
In the Left’s zeal to use COVID-19 as a weapon against President Trump and to mold the election, they may have unwitting and terminally ruined their precious Ivy League and education system and monopoly.
And far more importantly, the K-12 establishment.
#CancelYale, they are named after a proud slaveowner.
He is right. That’s not what they paid for.
My daughter once had a community college class. The instructor taught the identical course at a university.
As I recall, the CC was $65 a credit hour while the university was over $300 an hour.
Haha! Some 25 years ago I taught as an adjunct for a community college and as an adjunct at a private university. I told my cc students that their 35 dollar a credit hour course was buying them the same course as the students were paying 520 dollar credit hour for at the private university! They thought that was pretty funny. It was the same course, same teacher, same exams, same everything. I did not, however, inform my university students of this fact. When it comes to Freshman courses it is a very common thing, and I doubt that many parents and students know this.
Yale says it’s online classes are just as good as the classes on campus. If this is the case then there is no academic need to have campuses at all except for labs for sciences.
The whole college thing is pretty much a scam and money grab unless you’re going into a hard science field.
Of my four kids, two have associates degrees and are doing fine, one is an aerospace engineer at NASA, obviously he’s fully degreed.
The fourth is a trucker. His company just dropped $200,000 on a brand new rig for him and he’s pretty excited. With overtime he’s probably the second highest earning one of the four.
Degrees in the humanities can be a waste of money. If a student just wants the knowledge then okay, but if the student wants a job with a future it is in the hard sciences. At one time I argued that any degree would at least prove to an employer that the student could show up on time and complete a task, but now the lefties have pretty much overtaken the humanities and students are taught garbage.
Vo-tech education is where most young folks should be looking. The trades and the sciences are where the future is. This world doesn’t need anymore commie poets and misguided sociologists. There are plenty of those marching and rioting in the streets.
I agree 100%.
My son the trucker’s best friend works for his uncle operating heavy equipment. He’s starting to get his own jobs on the side too.
We home educated our kids. Up until a few years ago, it was all about what college the kids are going to. Now, it seems to have shifted strongly toward skilled trades. My youngest, the trucker is 21. I think most of his friends are working in the trades. My kid is probably going to pull about $50K this year. I couldn’t imagine making that much at that young age. All of mine are debt free, except for one who owes us some money.
The engineer managed to pay off his school loans within a year. Again, how difficult it must be to start off your adult life $60-100,000 in the hole with nothing to show for it but a piece of paper that says you’re an expert in lesbian dance theory.
“expert in lesbian dance theory.”
LOL!! That is a good one! The sad thing is that that major probably does exist.
Got to credit radio host Chris Stigall for that one.
I’m sure it exists.
Peak Brick and Mortar Higher Education.
Once the best teachers have recorded their lectures in areas where the “facts” don’t change that frequently [STEM], the rest of the faculty can be removed from teaching the Basics in their fields.
It’s a societal efficiency [Brick and Mortar Higher Education is AGAINST efficiency in their profession].
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