I, my wife, four of our daughters, my two sisters, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my parents, and my niece all graduated from Penn State. You know what we say when compared to Notre Dame?...not today.
I quite frankly don’t give a shit if it changes your mind or not. At the end of the day if something happens, you can still sleep soundly at night. Say a second outbreak happens such that many are reporting and students are on campus some of whom have an autoimmune disease, the repercussions are not on your plate they are on Barrons. You don’t simply fix this overnight, maybe this whole thing turns out to be nothing but until then you should treat it with respect to others. Some fear it and for that you should respect your fellow Americans. Penn state will and always will be #1 for me
Or, y’know, PA was hit worse than Indiana and and Penn State pulls far more students from NYC, NJ and Philly, which were three of the larger outbreak spots in the country.
Plus, Penn State has a huge satellite campus system. So there are a whole lotta moving parts.
At the rate that changes are happening, and more data becomes available, I am glad they are waiting. I have an incoming freshman daughter, and I would rather the decision be as thoughtful and data driven as possible. A rush to throw a plan together to be a perceived "leader" does not impress me.
I rarely disagree with you, but in this case i do. The Penn State system has 19 campuses compared to Purdue's 4. I doubt that Purdue or any university is going to force certain students to use remote learning based on geography, while allowing others to experience resident learning. Steve Marino would have a whole gaggle of new clients on who's behalf he could sue Penn State. Resident learning will have to be based on the ability to test, and have a plan on what to do when the inevitable positive results show up. My two kids are dying to know what they will be doing in the fall. We hear their gripes every day. But I think this is important to get correct rather than get first.
But her opportunity to play volleyball for PSU-Altoona would be. That is the reason she accepted to Altoona instead of main campus. We will not pay out-of-State for her to take online classes when she can go to the community college where I teach for free and take all of the classes she would as a freshman. Like it or not, the experience is why so many kids choose a college. We are willing to wait and hear the plan though. We are hoping she can go on campus in the fall.
I don't disagree with getting it right.
Thank you for clarifying your daughter's being in athletics. That does make campus presence more important.
Seriously, her heart is so set on going, and things are opening up more here in MD, so I am on board with her going to PSU if it has on-campus options. I don't think she would be more at risk in Altoona than she would be in Frederick MD. But we won't pay for PSU on-line classes.
Good luck. I really do empathize with parents facing this decision.My deadline is the last day to withdrawal with tuition reimbursement
That is rough
... Our good friends' daughter should be a senior Material Science major in the fall. They also have the lease to worry about and are trying to decide on whether to enroll her or take the year off. Her classes as remote learning in the spring had much to be desired. Some courses you just need to be there!
Considering what Penn State charges its customers, and the risks involved, regular and open communication should be the standard.
It's no ones responsibility except for that person with the autoimmune disease that you speak of. They could get it anywhere let alone on campus. This has gotten ridiculous. Everyone should do what they personally feel they have to do and let the world keep turning.
That's actually not unreasonable depending on the frequency of testing. Perhaps they can isolate only the positive tests if testing is conducted daily, for every player regardless of symptoms, prior to entering the team building.
Honestly, as a parent, we get constant emails and updates. No complaints. They even found my daughter a virtual internship in her field for the summer, in the midst of a global pandemic. How cool is that?
I would agree with you, at some point we are not going to protect people from dieing. But again there is a lot more behind the scenes with this then just continuing education. There could be legal ramifications if not handled appropriately. Again easy for you to sit behind a computer and give your thoughts instead of looking out for a couple thousand students and faculty. I’m not trying to argue with you that classes shouldn’t resume because like any penn stater i would like to see a football game especially with a team as highly anticipated as ours will be. I won’t bring Fauci into any discussion i have because he has been contradicting everything he has been saying.
Our youngest was supposed to be doing her internship with Caterpillar, but that went virtual. I think it was very honorable for most of these companies to continue to honor these commitments. It would have been easy to bail.
