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Of course not, but it's hardly the same. For the sake of argument, take the university at their word: that they believed there was an unsafe environment foster
by JackFr 9y ago
Of course not, but it's hardly the same.
For the sake of argument, take the university at their word: that they believed there was an unsafe environment fostered in this dorm, and that the students were markedly underperforming their peers. As such the University is selling a defective good to the parents, and they are trying to remediate it.
That sounds quite reasonable to me.
However, are they infantilizing the students and preventing them from growing in maturity and judgement in the process?
Yep, they sure are.
The problem US universities are finding themselves in, is when parents are ponying up small fortunes, they are not interested in preserving 'freedom to fail' which is necessary for growth.
- strathmeyer 9y agoThis is a University that would rather someone die than they have to admit they did something wrong. Nobody is giving them the benefit of the doubt.
- op00to 9y ago> As such the University is selling a defective good to the parents The university is selling a possibly "defective" good to the student. The parents are gifting money to the student to pay for that service.
- sulam 9y agoActually it's not a gift. If it was a gift, it would exceed the amount of money I can give him and would trigger taxes for him, and I'd need to give him _more_ money to pay those taxes. I don't know how this works legally, but I do know (because I asked) that this isn't considered a gift according to the IRS.