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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is she a freshman?

Of course she's nervous and of course you should keep encouraging her. If they have to move back home in a month, so what.

This is difficult on all of us, but [b]these kids have to learn to buck up and accept reality. Staying home and doing correspondence courses from mommy's basement does not sound like a good idea to me[/b].[/quote]

Yes, they have to learn to accept reality. So do their parents. The reality right now is that we have a global pandemic, involving a virus that is unlike any other we already know, for which there is inadequate treatment. The reality is that it is highly contagious and nothing fights it except avoiding it by distancing, masking and staying out of group situations such as living and studying together. The reality is that students cannot count on governments at any level to advise their colleges or ensure everyone will have enough tests, PPE, etc.

The reality is that going back to in-person campus life is exactly the opposite of the medical advice to keep distant, however many tents colleges set up outdoors, however far apart they space seats. Lots of good efforts and ideas by colleges, but any student who chooses to stay home is seeing that living in groups, not learning in spaced classrooms, is going to sink those good intentions.

The fact that you snidely characterize anyone's choice to do this semester at home as "doing correspondence courses from mommy's basement," as if these students are somehow hiding from reality, tells us a lot about YOU, PP. They are accepting that the college experience and education they already knew or were about to begin is profoundly altered by this pandemic and our nation's idiotic response to it so far. Your idea that they should all rush back to campuses is the idea that lacks reality. [/quote]

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