Student weren't going to leave Cambridge no matter what. They could offer a subpar year and everyone would still "show up." Same reason Harvard can charge $55k

Student weren't going to leave Cambridge no matter what. They could offer a subpar year and everyone would still "show up." Same reason Harvard can charge $55k for watching its free videos this year. In April parents were already talking about "pods" as an alternative to remote learning in K-12 schools. If the average K-12 school wasn't promising what parents wanted - in person education - the parents would get it somewhere else, pulling their student and the ~10k funding that comes with the student right from the school. This was the ONLY factor at play and is highly predictive of the preparedness of remote learning at various institutions. The bigger takeaway is that parents, not students or teachers, are almost always the antagonists.