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Why don't students respect the stay home message?

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Propsneeded · 09/01/2021 23:17

Simple really. Universities are not open for the vast majority unless veterinary etc.....yet many are turning up already...

Falmouth 200 students back despite University not open....

Why don't they follow guidelines...

Aibu they can do what they like
Yanbu they should follow the guidelines and stay at home

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user1471565182 · 09/01/2021 23:18

because they live there?

VodselForDinner · 09/01/2021 23:19

Probably for the same reason that people don’t use the fucking dedicated Covid board on here- they think they’re special and deserve more attention.

YouBoughtMeAWall · 09/01/2021 23:19

Well students are just people. Like the rest of the population- some will follow the rules and some won’t.

user1471565182 · 09/01/2021 23:20

Anybody bored of the endless attacks on young people yet, whilst they're simultaneously expected to pay for this government's and older generation's shit?

vanillandhoney · 09/01/2021 23:20

Many of them live on campus? Why would they pay for accommodation and not use it?

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RickiTarr · 09/01/2021 23:22

Because they’ve been given high and complex expectations of their student years which they have been convinced must be fun, exciting, glamorous and highly instagrammable. They have a highly developed sense of themselves as paying customers and unquenchable FOMO.

Not all of them, obviously, but the uncooperative little shits.

Original poster
Propsneeded · 09/01/2021 23:22

@VodselForDinner

Probably for the same reason that people don’t use the fucking dedicated Covid board on here- they think they’re special and deserve more attention.
It's AIBU....

You know where you ask a question

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marshmallowfluffy · 09/01/2021 23:22

Because they are paying rent?
Because it's easier to socially distance away from home?
Because the rest of the family might have risk factors like working frontline ?
Because their employers might want them back in work?

Chocomel · 09/01/2021 23:23

My kid is still at uni because he never left for Christmas. We live abroad and three weeks break meant he'd have a week with us then have to quarantine for two weeks before starting again. Believe me - I'd much rather my 18 year old was with me now that lockdown has been announced. He spent Christmas in a student flat for nothing.

Vitaminsss · 09/01/2021 23:23

I’m getting bitter vibes from your post. Not sure why you’re fixated on students when other demographics have driven rates up

But to humour you, students have already paid rent - they officially live in their university cities. The moved there, so therefore university is home. Not sure how else to spell it out for you? We are talking about adults after all, many can’t stay at their parents and others may have responsibilities in their uni city like work.

CountessFrog · 09/01/2021 23:23

Did they go home?

When I was at university, I stayed in the university town all year.

CookEatRepeat · 09/01/2021 23:23

Lots of students don’t have appropriate study space in their family home - especially not for exam time - and many of them will still have exams despite everything.

Theunamedcat · 09/01/2021 23:23

They've there they are paying rent they need access to the library? Been working towards a degree for three years and people think they should just quit waste all there time money and effort with no guarantees next year will be better?

Because they have jobs?

RickiTarr · 09/01/2021 23:24

They should get a rent holiday or partial rebate, though.

Liftmusic · 09/01/2021 23:24

@user1471565182

Anybody bored of the endless attacks on young people yet, whilst they're simultaneously expected to pay for this government's and older generation's shit?
Absolutely sick of it.
Vitaminsss · 09/01/2021 23:25

@user1471565182

Anybody bored of the endless attacks on young people yet, whilst they're simultaneously expected to pay for this government's and older generation's shit?
Absolutely.

Let me guess, OP’s a resentful old person as they didn’t go to university themselves?

Sparklingbrook · 09/01/2021 23:26

They are paying rent, they may have a PT job they have to return to (maybe in essential retail.)
They don’t have a permanent home elsewhere?
Could be a bajillion reasons. 🤷‍♀️

NuniaBeeswax · 09/01/2021 23:27

Because they want to personally piss you off OP and kill grannies.

Witchend · 09/01/2021 23:27

Why are you trying to blame students?

University of Falmouth has around 5500 students. So 200 students back is approximately 3.5% of them. That sounds a pretty good rate of compliance from what I've seen, and that's assuming none of them are students who chose to stay on during the holidays for various reasons.

My dd is 2nd year, and I have a lot of friends who have dc of university age. I can't think of any who have gone back who aren't in the allowed category of medicine or similar. However there are a good few who chosen not to go home for Christmas because their parents or siblings are vulnerable and they chose to protect them. In some cases it's meant a miserable time on their own through the holidays, and they don't know when they'll get back.
They should be praised rather than condemned.

Original poster
Propsneeded · 09/01/2021 23:27

@RickiTarr

They should get a rent holiday or partial rebate, though.
I agree they should get a rent rebate
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Original poster
Propsneeded · 09/01/2021 23:28

@NuniaBeeswax

Because they want to personally piss you off OP and kill grannies.
[GRIN]
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NailsNeedDoing · 09/01/2021 23:28

Because they are paying for their accommodation and they’re entitled to use it. If the government wants them to stay at home it can suck up the waste of vast sums of money this year is for students.

They wanted workers to stay at home so they paid for furlough, they can do the same for students if them staying away matter so much.

Changalang · 09/01/2021 23:28

Once I left to go to university, in my family's eyes I had left home.

My student flat was my home.

Butchyrestingface · 09/01/2021 23:29

This is students attending ONE university though, surely? Not students en masse?

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