Less dumb? On a scale of 1-10 on the dumb-o-meter where did you start before making that observation?
UNI cancels spring break due to COVID-19
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Less dumb? On a scale of 1-10 on the dumb-o-meter where did you start before making that observation?
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Oh no, what ever will they do without a week off in the middle of the semester? How will they make it 6 more weeks until the end of classes?
I don't care for the add a week but delete two. Kid tells me that his instructors and his buddies agree with him is that they are just deleting a weeks worth of classes and not trying to fit the weeks of work in. So, I'm paying the same amount for 1/16th less.
Probably get together with their friends and use the extra time over the thanksgiving/Christmas break to party even more!
Nope, planes don't fly during december and january. To top it off, they close the states borders during that time also so they won't be able to leave. No way they will go someplace over the first couple weeks of december.
The virus is taking a break the week of Jan 18-22 so don't even go there!
Good to know. Will have to plan a family outing that week then. Like the tax free weekend, we now have Covid free weekend. Maybe we can put the two together.
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That's not the point. The schools are going to have to deal with the entire student body coming back onto campus when they return from winter break, regardless. Cancelling spring break keeps them from having to deal with it again. Lots of people are going to travel during the winter break. That's a given. But this way, the schools only have to worry about one mass influx of students for the whole semester. It's sound logic.
Some of that stuff is happening now. With all this online and hybrid models, my son says there are people gone left and right. A lot are heading home, and not just within the borders of Iowa, for a week or a long weekend and then venturing back. You can't punish a student for any late work or missing class is they say they felt sick, so it is getting abused more than most people want to admit. If someone thinks the partying has stopped, they have their heads in the sand. Yeah, it has slowed down in Ames, but now ISU is more like UNI was when I was in college where people show up monday morning, leave thursday night or friday afternoon and party back home. The current system just drove the parties outside of Ames.
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If you can't acknowledge the difference between some anecdotal accounts of some students taking advantage of the system and a weeklong, school sanctioned, cessation of all classes, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
We will have to. My point wasn’t that they need to have spring break, doesn’t really matter to me. I think it’s foolish to add two weeks to that period (because that encourages trips then).
I’ve been around the campus, it’s dead. The kids who go to college, from this area anyway, nearly all come home Every weekend. You ask them why they didnt stay down there, they say it’s boring and you cant meet people very easily. I haven’t seen this many college kids in the area during the weekends and throughout the weeks ever. If it’s just north Iowa kids that are back and forth a lot then that would be odd, but maybe we are odd ones.
I think if they want to make it better, start the normal time, skip spring break and get out a week earlier. Why go two weeks later and then finish normal time?
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If we're going to go by personal accounts, I live in Ames. There are still plenty of students here during the week and on weekends. Significantly more than are here on your average spring break week.
Regardless, the school can't prevent kids from going home on weekends. They can prevent a weeklong cessation of classes. That's what this is about, pure and simple. Will cancelling spring break stop COVID on its own? Of course not. But it's still a logical move that's within the school's ability to control.
