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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHarvard announced today that only 40 Percent of students will be allowed back to campus. Mostly freshmen and seniors. That means no varsity sports.
Notice in that Princeton letter that they see the virus as a LONG-TERM fact of life. This isn’t just a 2020-21 issue; it could be years. And let’s face it as a “wicked smaht” university that employs genius professors who work in virology and drug discovery they know it will likely be years, if ever, that we have a really effective treatment or vaccine for this.
This is the new normal folks, get used to it...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThere's chatter Ivies will move fall sports to the spring, but Harvards announcement said the decision on spring semester won't even be decided until December.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis is such a double edge sword....expecting parents to pay nearly full price for a clearly diminished education? We saw how the online thing went this spring. While it may be adequate, it's still not worth a 20K pricetag for a semester?? On the other hand, if the Universities don't have paying students, they can't sustain the expensive models they have all evolved into!
Will many opt out and take a gap year? Stay at home and do CC online?? Thoughts on this from those of you who have children in college? Fortunately I got mine out just in time before this **** show.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThey could move it to the moon too. Seriously what difference would moving it to the spring make? They will have the same issues then too.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThey could move it to the moon too. Seriously what difference would moving it to the spring make? They will have the same issues then too.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThey obviously have to limit gap year a small number or else there will unmanageable numbers later. I''m not so concerned about this for college kids. The real problem is the grade school kids in our inner cities. Many of them won't attend on line classes even if the schools provide free computers and free internet access. Even those who do attend will fall further and further behind kids at elite schools who will have far better on-line programs. The added toll on these kids' futures is sad.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThey obviously have to limit gap year a small number or else there will unmanageable numbers later. I''m not so concerned about this for college kids. The real problem is the grade school kids in our inner cities. Many of them won't attend on line classes even if the schools provide free computers and free internet access. Even those who do attend will fall further and further behind kids at elite schools who will have far better on-line programs. The added toll on these kids' futures is sad.
This could be a real nightmare for 21's if loads of students take a year off.
Absolutely agree with K-12 kids. They've lost so much already, especially in weak school systems. It's also easier to send kids home if they get sick or shut down a school district for a few weeks if it gets "hot" vs grappling with all the complications of college students.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThey're offering hope - hope that the virus becomes less lethal, there's a vaccine or better treatments. We just don't know right now.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHere we go...the beginning of the end. Way to go, fear mongers, and those of you who bought into it. Newsflash: NO ONE college age dies! (well, statistically anyway--please spare me citing the PSU kid, or a couple others.....we're talking more die binge drinking every year, so why no prohibition??!)
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/...-academic-year
How gracious of Princeton to offer a 10% discount on 50% in person education experience. And, no mention of sports, that's coming Friday, but the Ivies are DONE.
Goodbye to our entire higher education system, and given that it and college sports are a big part of our economic machine, good bye, country. None of us will live long enough to see the recovery, and years from now in history class, they will read about all the idiot Americans who f**ed their whole country because of a "pandemic" that has a long way to go before it comes close to touching a death toll of an actual one. A child has a much greater chance of getting hit by lightning.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI don't go to Princeton, am I supposed to care?
b) Just like the March Madness hysteria, the dominos have started to fall...all others now won't have a choice but to follow, and whether you are in college, have college aged kids, have younger than college aged kids, this will impact our society greatly....for a very long time, economically and otherwise.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Posta) you cared enough to open a thread clearly titled "Princeton"
b) Just like the March Madness hysteria, the dominos have started to fall...all others now won't have a choice but to follow, and whether you are in college, have college aged kids, have younger than college aged kids, this will impact our society greatly....for a very long time, economically and otherwise.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWith two in college this is a hot topic right now with our kids and all their friends. Some schools are basically telling kids no gap year allowed. You can stay home and take classes on line but no "gap". Others are allowing it readily. Incoming freshmen at some schools are also being told you can't defer - you would have to apply again next year.
This could be a real nightmare for 21's if loads of students take a year off.
Absolutely agree with K-12 kids. They've lost so much already, especially in weak school systems. It's also easier to send kids home if they get sick or shut down a school district for a few weeks if it gets "hot" vs grappling with all the complications of college students.
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