College requiring Covid-19 tracking app and SD agreement for students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turn off phone. Leave in dorm.

My employer has "tracked" out outside sales reps for years.

They turn off the phone when they don't want to be tracked.

Some of these trackers will know if the phone is off and the student will be penalized. Not that hard.

And...You do realize that the college can find them in their classes and drag their sorry, cheating backsides out to tell them either they carry the designated phone or they can go home, right?

If they leave the phone off enough of the time, they should be sent home to do classes virtually and lose the privilege of being on campus. Period. Oh, and no refund of room and board or fees or anything else. In fact there should be a monetary penalty for the PARENTS if the student is an ass and tries to be clever with the phone. Sure, the students are adults, as people here love to say over and over. But if they act like children, their parents should have to pay for the college's effort to track them down and find out why their phone is off. Colleges need to go harda$$ on this idiocy.

No college is that involved with their students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me blow your minds even more: my 19 yo does not have a smartphone -NP

Your kid is probably the healthiest in his peer group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids college requires temp check every morning and filling out a symptom checking app. No social distance app, but kids who violate social distance are counseled and it happens a gain are sent home. Party hosts are expelled. Party attendees are suspended and sent home. It is spelled out in bold letters that if you can’t live with the conditions on residential life, you should choose remote learning, or take a leave of absence or gap year— which are being granted this year.

They mean business, and I’m glad. With singles for all students, a trimester system so 2/3 of kids are on campus at a time (sophomore and juniors get stuck with a May to August semester), regular testing, grab and go and outside dining, masks unless you a eating, showering or along in your room, tents going up for outside lectures this fall, my kid stands a chance at a residential year. With most classes in person.

I went through the restrictions with my kid before he signed the agreement. He knows the rules and is choosing to attend. We gave him the option of remote learning or gap year. I’m thankful that the college has put some much time and thought and money into trying to make residential work. But, it only works if all the members of the community mask up and follows rules. It take one large party to bring the whole plan down.

OP— if your kid doesn’t agree with the rules, no one is making him attend. Without a strict code of conduct that all kids must follow, no college is going to make it a month.

This is Oberlin BTW. Th don’t taking infringing on kids freedom lightly.

If you asked me beforehand what colleges don't take kids'freedoms seriously (particularly freedom of speech and thought) before the COVID thing, Oberlin would be at the top of my list. This only confirms it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me blow your minds even more: my 19 yo does not have a smartphone -NP

That you know of. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
DP. My kid has gone weeks without a smartphone working at a camp. It’s not that hard.

The older teens I know who went to camps where they were expected to turn in their phones at the camp office had second cell phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me blow your minds even more: my 19 yo does not have a smartphone -NP

That you know of. LOL.

I don’t care if she does or not. She’s an adult. I know there isn’t one on my phone plan, and I’ve never seen it or heard about it, so I assume it doesn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
DP. My kid has gone weeks without a smartphone working at a camp. It’s not that hard.

The older teens I know who went to camps where they were expected to turn in their phones at the camp office had second cell phones.

I’m the pp you responded to. I should clarify that my kid brought the iphone, but we have a weak T-Mobile plan that rendered it useless (only worker at the camp who did not have enough service to call, text, use Snapchat or use the Internet). Unless my kid secretly has Verizon!