Zooze the Horse roams around the pasture near Lamar State College. Zooze thinks about problems in academia. Zhe wants proffies to submit posts (blog posts, not fence posts).
The idea that these moves (evictions, essentially) could possibly be reversed in an equitable way is absurd. Once you vacate dorms, you are electronic for the remainder of the term.
For example - Johnny gets to Ivy League on a scholarship - can barely pay for his books - lives on campus - sees his family for 8 weeks in the summer in Wyoming. Has to pack up and find a way to Wyoming. Now he's there, and BROKE, and Harvard (or Stony Brook, or Cal East Bay or whatever whatever whatever - everyone's clearing out, fill in the blank) and you call him back, and he LITERALLY can't get there. So he forfeits a semester? Does he lose his scholarship for not completing the courses? Do you fail him? Give him withdrawals? What?
Do you tell him to stay home and finish the class electronically? So what, now the teacher has to teach a life F2F class AND an electronic class? Good luck with that. #CBA
Buffy is stinkin' rich - she can come and go as she pleases, but Buffy's mom doesn't want her loitering around the Manhattan penthouse all March if she doesn't have to be in Cambridge anyway and sends her to the summer home in London to distance-learn herself. Then there's a spike in London and Buffy gets quarantined - she CAN afford to come back - but she's not allowed.
There's no going back and all of the CYA legalese BS tentativeness in these statements are an embarrassment.
It would be one thing if it was spring break and people wound up in these situations - but it's not spring break and the students are going to be where ever they are at the end of March BECAUSE their Universities SENT them there.
It is hard to tell whether the colleges' reactions are ethical or simply "cover your ass"--or whether, as a practical matter, there is any distinction between those two from their POV.
For some reason, I remain in the camp that says I want administrators and employees who actually have hearts. Call me naive.
Definitely - in my opinion, that means you have to leave the semester electronic so people don't get pulled out of school and into places where they can't join back in.
The idea that these moves (evictions, essentially) could possibly be reversed in an equitable way is absurd. Once you vacate dorms, you are electronic for the remainder of the term.
ReplyDeleteFor example - Johnny gets to Ivy League on a scholarship - can barely pay for his books - lives on campus - sees his family for 8 weeks in the summer in Wyoming. Has to pack up and find a way to Wyoming. Now he's there, and BROKE, and Harvard (or Stony Brook, or Cal East Bay or whatever whatever whatever - everyone's clearing out, fill in the blank) and you call him back, and he LITERALLY can't get there. So he forfeits a semester? Does he lose his scholarship for not completing the courses? Do you fail him? Give him withdrawals? What?
Do you tell him to stay home and finish the class electronically? So what, now the teacher has to teach a life F2F class AND an electronic class? Good luck with that. #CBA
Buffy is stinkin' rich - she can come and go as she pleases, but Buffy's mom doesn't want her loitering around the Manhattan penthouse all March if she doesn't have to be in Cambridge anyway and sends her to the summer home in London to distance-learn herself. Then there's a spike in London and Buffy gets quarantined - she CAN afford to come back - but she's not allowed.
There's no going back and all of the CYA legalese BS tentativeness in these statements are an embarrassment.
It would be one thing if it was spring break and people wound up in these situations - but it's not spring break and the students are going to be where ever they are at the end of March BECAUSE their Universities SENT them there.
It is hard to tell whether the colleges' reactions are ethical or simply "cover your ass"--or whether, as a practical matter, there is any distinction between those two from their POV.
DeleteFor some reason, I remain in the camp that says I want administrators and employees who actually have hearts. Call me naive.
Definitely - in my opinion, that means you have to leave the semester electronic so people don't get pulled out of school and into places where they can't join back in.
ReplyDelete