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Dean McFrownypants Is Sorely Disappointed in College Students for Being at College
College administrators are busy covering their own asses and blaming students instead of protecting them
You knew that America’s colleges weren’t gonna give up the gravy train that easily. The U.S. Covid-19 infection rate is dropping but is still alarmingly high, to the point where sending any child to any school is still a fraught proposition. This would have been a perfect time to kill off the entire American college racket, with its obscene costs and deteriorating classroom product. This would have been a perfect time to kill off a lot of shit: colleges, college football, New York City streets, every municipal police department, the U.S. Senate, and such and such. But 2020 has given you a firm grasp of how determined the people in charge of such institutions are to protect them. So you still get a hefty dose of everything that did suck to go with everything that now sucks.
Bereft of actual leadership from, say, the president, colleges and universities have already commenced the process of hoarding tuition money and simultaneously covering their asses. And the way many of them are going about it is by telling their students, “If you get sick and die here, it’s your fault.”…
