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There's absolutely truth to this, but a lot of the big public schools (Big-10) don't feel like they have much choice. Schools and budgets that have been decimated by years of declining state funding can't afford not to have students on campus. 1/4 https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1296944562355630080
And since a coherent federal response obviously isn't going to materialize, they're doing the only thing they can. @BretDevereaux has an excellent thread on this I discovered today. https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1295909929228873728?s=20
There are absolutely issues with the way universities have approached 2/4
There are absolutely issues with the way universities have approached 2/4
reopening and many of them seemed to proceed without much of a plan, putting everyone at risk. But for those universities that do have a plan, even one with potential holes, that plan has to have guidelines and rules that they expect the community to abide by for it to work. 3/4
When those guidelines are inevitably broken, what do universities do if there aren't any consequences? There aren't any good answers, and I agree that suspending students is probably not the way to go, but if there's no enforcement at all, opening has no hope of working. 4/4
