Friends kid applied for an exception to stay at JMU and it was granted. No real reason. No hardship at home, all online classes, etc.

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To be clear, they are sending on campus kids home. But rec centers and dining halls will remain open for off campus kids. How does this make any sense at all??????

Exactly - all off-campus students staying in Harrisonburg. This makes no sense. Word on the street is that many college freshman are planning to move off-campus rather than go home.

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Anonymous wrote:I gotta say, I think the school is overreacting...they should just keep kids standing tight in the dorms, nobody on campus go off..nobody off campus go on...Have class online for two weeks, contain the outbreaks, buckle down and try again. Priority is protecting the vulnerable...nationwide, college kids have not been hospitalized from covid. A reset can work...I guess Admin was just to rattled to try it. And why has JMU no testing, while other VA publics do?

Most students at JMU don't even live in dorms.

Notre Dame made it work...half the enrollment, but they did go down to just a few cases this week.

Notre Dame requires most of it's students to live on campus (if I remember correctly, it's everyone except seniors?) That is absolutely nothing like JMU, where it's mostly just freshmen in dorms. That means Notre Dame has a lot more control and ability to enforce the "kids" to "stand tight in the dorms."

Somewhat true...the amount of students not living in dorms was substantially increased this year, but the cases were mostly off-campus. I think the reason JMU is derailing is because they did not plan ahead with isolation/quarantine protocol and testing.

Notre Dame went to full remote and still has had about 100 cases this past week (not counting the 2 most recent days lacking reporting) which is much lower than where they were heading, but I'm not sure they have "made it work" yet. W&M has 0 cases (close in size to ND) tho not all students on campus yet. GMU has 7000 students on campus and has 3 cases. So clearly some schools are keeping it under control so far.

WM has over 8000 students and has done 7000 tests. Maybe they’ll be fine. But for the moment they are still processing entrance testing. It’s not like they’ve had weeks of ongoing asymptomatic surveillance testing.

WM has had about two weeks of surveillance testing, with no positives. No symptomatic students who tested positive. And, Richmond hall (Quarantine dorm) is empty.

And once the older students get there and start throwing parties off campus, all bets are off

To be clear, they are sending on campus kids home. But rec centers and dining halls will remain open for off campus kids. How does this make any sense at all??????

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Anonymous wrote:I gotta say, I think the school is overreacting...they should just keep kids standing tight in the dorms, nobody on campus go off..nobody off campus go on...Have class online for two weeks, contain the outbreaks, buckle down and try again. Priority is protecting the vulnerable...nationwide, college kids have not been hospitalized from covid. A reset can work...I guess Admin was just to rattled to try it. And why has JMU no testing, while other VA publics do?

Most students at JMU don't even live in dorms.

Notre Dame made it work...half the enrollment, but they did go down to just a few cases this week.

Notre Dame requires most of it's students to live on campus (if I remember correctly, it's everyone except seniors?) That is absolutely nothing like JMU, where it's mostly just freshmen in dorms. That means Notre Dame has a lot more control and ability to enforce the "kids" to "stand tight in the dorms."

Somewhat true...the amount of students not living in dorms was substantially increased this year, but the cases were mostly off-campus. I think the reason JMU is derailing is because they did not plan ahead with isolation/quarantine protocol and testing.

Notre Dame went to full remote and still has had about 100 cases this past week (not counting the 2 most recent days lacking reporting) which is much lower than where they were heading, but I'm not sure they have "made it work" yet. W&M has 0 cases (close in size to ND) tho not all students on campus yet. GMU has 7000 students on campus and has 3 cases. So clearly some schools are keeping it under control so far.

WM has over 8000 students and has done 7000 tests. Maybe they’ll be fine. But for the moment they are still processing entrance testing. It’s not like they’ve had weeks of ongoing asymptomatic surveillance testing.

WM has had about two weeks of surveillance testing, with no positives. No symptomatic students who tested positive. And, Richmond hall (Quarantine dorm) is empty.

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Anonymous wrote:I gotta say, I think the school is overreacting...they should just keep kids standing tight in the dorms, nobody on campus go off..nobody off campus go on...Have class online for two weeks, contain the outbreaks, buckle down and try again. Priority is protecting the vulnerable...nationwide, college kids have not been hospitalized from covid. A reset can work...I guess Admin was just to rattled to try it. And why has JMU no testing, while other VA publics do?

Most students at JMU don't even live in dorms.

Notre Dame made it work...half the enrollment, but they did go down to just a few cases this week.

Notre Dame requires most of it's students to live on campus (if I remember correctly, it's everyone except seniors?) That is absolutely nothing like JMU, where it's mostly just freshmen in dorms. That means Notre Dame has a lot more control and ability to enforce the "kids" to "stand tight in the dorms."

Somewhat true...the amount of students not living in dorms was substantially increased this year, but the cases were mostly off-campus. I think the reason JMU is derailing is because they did not plan ahead with isolation/quarantine protocol and testing.

Notre Dame went to full remote and still has had about 100 cases this past week (not counting the 2 most recent days lacking reporting) which is much lower than where they were heading, but I'm not sure they have "made it work" yet. W&M has 0 cases (close in size to ND) tho not all students on campus yet. GMU has 7000 students on campus and has 3 cases. So clearly some schools are keeping it under control so far.

WM has over 8000 students and has done 7000 tests. Maybe they’ll be fine. But for the moment they are still processing entrance testing. It’s not like they’ve had weeks of ongoing asymptomatic surveillance testing.

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Anonymous wrote:*scratches JMU off the list for where to apply this year*

People apply to JMU? I always thought it was just where you ended up at the last minute. Enroll and pay sort of thing.

You are a real, first-class dick face, you know that?

And before you say anything, my kid isn't even in HS yet.

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Anonymous wrote:They're all going home, means a sh*t ton are coming back to Northern VA. Are the Radford and VT kids coming home too??

We are doomed.

I'd say such a shocking lack of a plan, but then I just look at our lack of leadership at the federal level ...

Anonymous wrote:They're all going home, means a sh*t ton are coming back to Northern VA. Are the Radford and VT kids coming home too??

We are doomed.

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Most students at JMU don't even live in dorms.

Notre Dame made it work...half the enrollment, but they did go down to just a few cases this week.

Notre Dame requires most of it's students to live on campus (if I remember correctly, it's everyone except seniors?) That is absolutely nothing like JMU, where it's mostly just freshmen in dorms. That means Notre Dame has a lot more control and ability to enforce the "kids" to "stand tight in the dorms."

Somewhat true...the amount of students not living in dorms was substantially increased this year, but the cases were mostly off-campus. I think the reason JMU is derailing is because they did not plan ahead with isolation/quarantine protocol and testing.

Notre Dame went to full remote and still has had about 100 cases this past week (not counting the 2 most recent days lacking reporting) which is much lower than where they were heading, but I'm not sure they have "made it work" yet. W&M has 0 cases (close in size to ND) tho not all students on campus yet. GMU has 7000 students on campus and has 3 cases. So clearly some schools are keeping it under control so far.

WM has over 8000 students and has done 7000 tests. Maybe they’ll be fine. But for the moment they are still processing entrance testing. It’s not like they’ve had weeks of ongoing asymptomatic surveillance testing.

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame could also be keeping the kids on campus for football! Touchdown Jesus! First Down Moses!