Will you let your kid go back to college in the fall if things are the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a college town. The restaurants just opened back up in my college town for inside dining. The restaurants are slammed with college students and professors.

My college town has about 70,000 students. Many live in apartments year round. College students in my town typically have a lot of money.

They are dining in restaurants. I fail to see campus not opening up.

College students are also working the restaurant jobs.

Life goes on.

What town is this? Have the restaurants opened up to full capacity?

Gotta be UGA or similar.

[Anonymous]

I really, really hope colleges start up in person in the Fall. I also hope colleges have a plan in place for those faculty and students who are at risk. We all need to be reasonable about all of this.

[Anonymous]

Take a close look at who those people are. They are willing to let this country--in particular, the children--suffer in every possible way to ensure that Trump doesn't get reelected. This isn't conspiracy theory. Of course the virus is real and poses a great threat to certain communities and demographics. But the liberal have jumped on it and are forcing horrible policies onto the entire country to prolong the misery through November. We have to stand up to it and hopefully the colleges--liberal bastions that they are-- can lead that charge. If they open, students will return.

Amazing how you get to be the president, put guidelines out there to close the country and then blame the liberals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a college town. The restaurants just opened back up in my college town for inside dining. The restaurants are slammed with college students and professors.

My college town has about 70,000 students. Many live in apartments year round. College students in my town typically have a lot of money.

They are dining in restaurants. I fail to see campus not opening up.

College students are also working the restaurant jobs.

Life goes on.

What town is this? Have the restaurants opened up to full capacity?

University of Florida, Gainesville. Town just started opening up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a college town. The restaurants just opened back up in my college town for inside dining. The restaurants are slammed with college students and professors.

My college town has about 70,000 students. Many live in apartments year round. College students in my town typically have a lot of money.

They are dining in restaurants. I fail to see campus not opening up.

College students are also working the restaurant jobs.

Life goes on.

What town is this? Have the restaurants opened up to full capacity?

Gotta be UGA or similar.

It is University of Florida, Gainesville but I expect more college towns will be the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let? They are adults.

Well, "technically" adults. In actuality and maturity level, most likely not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let? They are adults.

Well, "technically" adults. In actuality and maturity level, most likely not.

There are kids who get an apartment at 18 and get a job to support themselves. Or join the military

[Anonymous]

If colleges open and the hospitals fill up, the colleges will close. Society can't continue with anything resembling normal if that means the hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. If the hospitals have capacity, then it's possible to keep opening up on track.

Hospital capacity is the key metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If colleges open and the hospitals fill up, the colleges will close. Society can't continue with anything resembling normal if that means the hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. If the hospitals have capacity, then it's possible to keep opening up on track.

Hospital capacity is the key metric.

+1. However, I am concerned that there's been some moving of the goal posts in certain states (e.g. CA). Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure I've seen capacity listed in their criteria...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a college town. The restaurants just opened back up in my college town for inside dining. The restaurants are slammed with college students and professors.

My college town has about 70,000 students. Many live in apartments year round. College students in my town typically have a lot of money.

They are dining in restaurants. I fail to see campus not opening up.

College students are also working the restaurant jobs.

Life goes on.

What town is this? Have the restaurants opened up to full capacity?

University of Florida, Gainesville. Town just started opening up.

Are the restaurants opening up at 100% capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course they should go back. The risk to young healthy people is truly negligible.

Yup, that's the mindset here. Let the germspreaders in dorms with shared bathrooms kill off the staff and faculty.

The reality is most college accomodations are pretty luxe. The norm now is that the college student has their own bathroom and their own bedroom. They might share a kitchen area.
Virtually every kid has their own car. College students of today are not living in ghettos.

That is not the norm for both my children or friend’s children or my nephews. All seem to have 2-4 roommates freshman year- all in one room. A few had en-suite bathrooms, but most were down the hall.

+1 Group bathrooms, shared rooms. Few cars. Gross shared "kitchen" for a whole dorm. Same as it ever was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a college town. The restaurants just opened back up in my college town for inside dining. The restaurants are slammed with college students and professors.

My college town has about 70,000 students. Many live in apartments year round. College students in my town typically have a lot of money.

They are dining in restaurants. I fail to see campus not opening up.

College students are also working the restaurant jobs.

Life goes on.

What town is this? Have the restaurants opened up to full capacity?

The options are basically Austin, Athens, Tallahassee, Gainesville. Although I don't think even UT has 70,000 students. More like 50,000. Actually, the only school I know of that has that many students is the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

[Anonymous]

No. I will not let me college kids go back in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s odd, because I know so many people with college aged kids who are currently taking a lot of precautions - no unnecessary trips to the store, wouldn’t dream of going out without a mask, won’t let their HS aged kids hang out with friends, yet I haven’t heard a one of them say they plan on keeping their kids home if colleges physically reopen.

It's not odd at all. If things reopen it's because things have improved. You are not bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let? They are adults.

Adults are self supporting.

If you raise them right, college kids should be fully capable of making their own responsible decisions. Keep in mind if they weren’t in college, they would be working a full time job and likely supporting themselves.

But while I am paying, I have some control.