“No roommates ... all online classes, no in person activities, dining halls closed, libraries closed except under very strict guidance, no visiting another dorm room, 6-ft distance at all times, masks mandatory when not in dorm room, cannot leave the Nashville area, circles drawn on quad area, threats of suspension/expulsion for first offense, security guards posted throughout campus to enforce rules, kids encouraged to report non-compliance, etc.
After having been on campus for a week, my daughter has not met nor spoken to a single person. She is in her dorm room in front of her computer at almost all times, and the only times she really leaves are when she picks up her to-go meals. This is a very depressing situation.”
Creighton University
“11 days to get the required COVID test back. Isolated the whole time. No in person eating at the dorms as a norm. Training in the heat with masks for hours. Masks 24/7 on campus inside and out. Social isolation. 2 classes a week in person, everything else virtual. Can’t come home until end of fall semester as you can’t travel more than 100 miles from Omaha. Aren’t allowed to go anywhere or do anything except local restaurant pick ups and run to the store. If you are mildly exposed to a person with COVID, 14 day mandatory quarantine.”
College of Charleston
Anon 1: “They are forcing them to all get tested, they can’t have anyone at all in their dorms, all common areas are closed except laundry. A lot of places to eat are still closed. Charleston has a mask mandate. They’ve got these kids, especially first year students terrorized.”
Anon 2: “Mandatory masks and distancing or face suspension on 1st offense. Dorm policy even more draconian.”
It’s heartbreaking. My heart breaks for all student in the United States right now, from K through college.
Everybody is remote, or “hybrid” (half the class at home, staggered) right now. Perhaps only 10% of the entire US is fully in person right now. It will be more obvious after Labor Day just how shut down all schools are.
The little ones are crying and hating “school” sitting in front of laptops all day.
One third of students in LA never even logged in once last Spring.
Teens are denied friends, sports, music, dances, activities—any normal high school experience.
College students are subjected to a “bait and switch” where they are told classes will be in person, they pay the full tuition, and then colleges announce it is the students’ fault for having parties and then switch to online.
Meanwhile all education at all levels is subpar, and the rest of the civilized world has reopened schools. In Europe and Asia, schools are the last to close and the first to reopen. They all prioritize children and education more than the United States.
In person education is critical infrastructure (like meat packing plants) so parents can go to work and the United States can have an educated workforce and citizenry and military.
These closed schools are a national security issue and I hope Trump will sign an executive order after the election so that they are reopened. He declared in person education essential a couple of weeks ago. There are too many teachers who vote in swing states to order reopening now.
Thanks for the post.
Those kids and their parents are getting ripped off big time....
Consumer fraud!
This what abject fear results in ... loss of freedom and personal control of your own life .... particularly personally devastating when you think about how free America was just a few months ago ... before the advent of tyranny-by-governor was instituted and which has taken hold due to increasingly irrational fear.
Walter M Sterlings daughter just started Syracuse university and has been calling the show to report for several weeks...
http://waltersterlingshow.com/listen-walter-sterling-show/
I’ve been working the entire time.. This lack of traffic due to schools being closed - can go on forever!
Two comments:
1) There are going to be a lot of low- to no- donating alumni among this student cohort.
2) There is a tremendous opportunity, especially in STEM, for credentials to be based on on-line courses verified by a carefully proctored exam. A number of top colleges, including MIT, have many course materials—including lectures, notes, and problem sets, on line for free. A minor pay upgrade to verify competence could be done with some during-course tutoring on the problem sets and an in person proctored (masked for now, not later) exam.
As an employer, you’d actually know more about what you were getting from a scheme like this than from a grade-inflated degree credential.
Great market opportunity!