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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because burnout and mental health issues are real.

Because they are adults and should be able to be responsible as such.

Because when you work at a university, overbearing parents will yell at you and criticize you no matter what you do, always, all the time, every day. For every you that says "OMG, why did you do spring break," there are 10 who would have said "WHAT, no spring break?! Are you running a prison?!"[/quote]

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Students and staff need breaks, but that does not mean those breaks must be traditional spring break that lasts a week and everyone leaves the campus.

My kid's small (2,600 students) college is not doing traditional spring break at all but is having four consecutive weekdays off when there are no classes AND no assignments due, with no assignments due immediately after the break either. Students cannot leave campus but that is now their normal. The college is going to sponsor optional fun activities on those days, on campus, but no one "has" to do anything.

It helps a lot that this college has about 99 percent of students living on campus so there is no off-campus culture of parties etc. If you did a four-day "in place" spring break at some huge university you'd just end up with students partying hard off-campus.

I bet someone will come here to say "They're being kept prisoner! That's not a real break!" blah blah. My kid is fine with it. And the students had a full fall semester on campus with at least 50 percent of classes in person there, and are on track for a spring semester on campus with even more classes in person, because [i]they are staying put and following the rules[/i] like adults should. A week at the beach or whatever isn't worth crashing a system that's keeping them on campus having that "real college experience" posters on DCUM whine that their kids aren't getting right now. [/quote]

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