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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scripps, Bryn Mawr[/quote]

I am moderately liberal. And DD and I pulled Bryn Mar and Haverford off her list after the students strikes after George Floyd’s death.  You want to refuse to attend class or your on campus job, that’s fine. You bear the consequences. But, for three weeks, they lobbied professors not to teach (many didn’t) and were very aggressive about pressuring kids not to attend the classes.  Many kids said they wanted to go to class but were threatened not to.

They started with the demands of having the bust of a school president who oversaw racist policies removed and some xtra money for BSU.  Fine. Reasonable goals. In the end, they had a 27 page list cost millions and the president caved to everything.

I’m all for peaceful protest and social justice on campus. But it takes an unbelievable amount of privilege to attend a $40,000 a semester college your parents spent years saving for (or that he college is giving you for free or that you took out loans for) and then protest by not getting an education.  We are giving up a lot for a LAC education. I have zero interest in academic classes being stopped for 3 weeks so kids privileged enough to attend a Seven Sisters school can cosplay social injustice.

Plus, they either ha significant racism problem.  Or an inmates running the asylum problem.  I suspect it’s some of both. But neither are a good sign for the college long term.

I know as part of their demands, they got amnesty from a negative impact to their grades and kept their campus jobs and were subject to not consequences. That isn’t real life, where your boss will say, attend a BLM protest on your own time. [/quote]

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