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Originally Posted by *winter*
The fact is, colleges have been out pricing many students for about ten years now, and this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Lower income students were barely hanging on since prices have risen over senseless things like studio dorms or new entertainment centers. It became more about competing for which campus could offer the most amenities and less about trying to educate the most students to transition people out of lower income statuses- isn’t that what state universities were partially designed for?
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This times a billion. It wouldn’t surprise me to see some of these suites turned back into traditional dorms or even the perimeters of campi moved and these ridiculously OTT buildings turned into senior citizen living or something.
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Originally Posted by AGDee
Most elementary/middle/highschool kids are going to be somewhat "behind" at this point- but they are ALL behind together. Doesn't that really just move the bar for where they should be right now? Isn't that why a lot of colleges aren't requiring test scores now?
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But that’s the thing, they’re NOT all behind together. Kid A whose mom has been working from home this whole time and making sure he logs onto his computer and is there to answer his questions is ahead of Kid B whose mom is working 60 hours a week at Target and sometimes sleeps through class, and is light years ahead of Kid C, who doesn’t even have internet in his home because his meth head parents didn’t pay the electric bill. This pandemic has separated the haves and the have nots big time.
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