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What’s particularly galling is that some of the people attempting to blame the students are most familiar with how students behave.
by ashtonkem 6y ago
What’s particularly galling is that some of the people attempting to blame the students are most familiar with how students behave.
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- MattGaiser 6y agoYou don’t get a pass for bad behaviour because you have a long history of bad behaviour.
- ashtonkem 6y agoCollege age kids have exhibited poor behavior since ... forever? You can rage against this, or you can design systems designed to function despite the poor risk/reward calculations of some people. Only one actually gets results, the other just lets you shift blame.
- true_religion 6y agoThese students don't have a history of bad behavior, they have no history at all because it's their first time living alone, and making such decisions for themselves. We know that people often make mistakes when they lack experience, it's our responsibility to ensure those mistakes don't lead to catastrophic loss merely because you graduated high school in the wrong year.
- viraptor 6y agoThere's a bit of generalising here. This is not "how students behave". This is "how people who really want social gatherings and in person parties behave" regardless if they're students or not. The idea that you can't tell an adult they have to wear masks in a certain environment is silly. Or to put it in a different way, if the students stayed at home, specific rules would apply to them. There's no reason they shouldn't apply on the campus as well. They're paying for college, not for a right to party.