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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This line of reasoning is SO entitled and uninformed.

I am a college professor. I cannot tell you how much extra work it is to take fully developed in person courses and convert them to DL (distance learning) format. We are also having to take intensive training in multiple platforms, to pull this off. You do NOT deserve a refund of tuition if your school is finishing classes up online. We don't push some button and that all works, seamlessly. I know science professors who are in labs doing experiments, so kids have data to analyze and write up from home.

Jeez, this is a national crisis. You likely deserve room and board credits. But you do not deserve tuition refunds. Trust me, from someone on the inside (who is working way more, and harder, than I was when we were doing in person teaching).[/quote]

Well, you sure sound entitled yourself. If I pay for a service of specific quality and that quality is not met, of course I deserve a refund. And, of course, if the university keeps you employed, you deserve your salary. You assume I, the consumer, pay directly your salary. No, I pay the university, which has its own mechanisms, including insurance, bankruptcy coverage, and so on.

It's not about faculty not doing their job, it's about the contract signed. Does it say in small print "and it's valid even for online teaching in emergency situations"? If yes, then I should pay. If not, then let's talk about it. We anyway don't pay real price, i.e., quality of teaching. Some pay for brand, for the child's experience, especially for ivies, expensive privates, rubbing elbows with so and so  ... how is that going on work with DL?[/quote]

[b]The Professor is just salty because he or she now has to work over 10 hours a week for that six figure salary.[/b] [/quote]

It sounds like you're salty because you blindly signed a contract and are stuck paying it...

I'm sorry. It must be incredibly difficult to go through life being this stupid. [/quote]
[b]My kid is in elementary school, silly. It’s just funny to listen to a professor whine that he or she has to actually do something besides drone through the same prewritten lecture twice a week[/b]. [/quote]

NP. Your kid is in elementary school? You have less than zero knowledge about this topic, then. If you think you can bring your ugly snark here because professors "droned through prewritten lectures" back in your day at wherever you went to college, you are beyond clueless, and I pity your child, especially when the time comes for your child to apply to colleges.

Your blanket assumptions about how college education works and what professors do is laughable. Are there dud professors? Yes, just like there are dud parents who think it's fine to criticize posters about whom they know nothing.

No, I'm not a professor but I pay attention to what my college student's professors do, and they actually earn every penny they make. [/quote]

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