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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

OP posts:

Method · 10/01/2021 00:19

Medical students and others on vocational courses were allowed back.

Luscinia · 10/01/2021 00:21

Students who do lab based and practical courses are allowed to go back to university, for example, medical and dentistry, veterinary course and others - I don't know the full list but there will be students returning.

LimitIsUp · 10/01/2021 00:22

Quite a few went back the weekend and the day before the lockdown announcement

MissMarpleDarling · 10/01/2021 00:23

They live there YABU.

HeddaGarbled · 10/01/2021 00:24

Because they’ve been told something different approx once a week for the last 9 months and they don’t know whether they’re coming or going.

Ludoole · 10/01/2021 00:25

Aswell as reasons already stated by pp, some courses have a practical requirement so they need to be their. For example when my son was doing biological science he needed laboratory time in order to pass.

hayleysmiles · 10/01/2021 00:25

@Propsneeded it's a covid question, fuck off over there, love

The rest of us don't need your boring crap, cheers

Busygoingblah · 10/01/2021 00:25

@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?

Very much so.

Students are so hugely unlikely to become very ill from covid but are being disproportionately effected by lockdown compared to the generations that we are protecting.

hammeringinmyhead · 10/01/2021 00:29

I left "home" when I went to uni. Going back to family for 2 weeks for Christmas was very nice but I worked in my uni town for 2 years and privately rented a house for 3 of my 4 years there, with my now DH. Like hell would I have stayed at my mum and dad's rather than lock down in a house I was paying for.

Hatstrategicallydipped · 10/01/2021 00:29

This one time... at band camp... I did what ever the hell I could get away with.

I doubt that youth has changed.

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 10/01/2021 00:30

@marshmallowfluffy

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?

I'd start with that ^ And add in because not all university students have family homes to go to do may have been renting /crashing at friends/over staying their welcome somewhere

Not all university students families want them back at home

Not all families have the space, especially now schools have closed and other kids are remote learning

Some just because it's FUN. That's NOT a good reason. That's selfish & irresponsible.

Babyroobs · 10/01/2021 00:31

My DS has gone back to Uni. He has a part time job there, which the way the economy is going he may need to fall back on when he graduates if there is nothing else around. We are paying £350 a month rent for his room in a shared house which we still have to pay regardless so he may as well be where he can earn some money, and he has a dissertation to write which he cannot do here in a noisy house with everyone trying to work and study from home. He has had covid already.

uggmum · 10/01/2021 00:32

Why are we student bashing on this thread.

My dd went back to university on 27 Dec. She came home for 6 days.

It is the only time she has come home all year.

She rents a house which I pay £6,000 a year for. There are no rent refunds for students who are not in university accommodation.

The way students have been treated by their Universities is a disgrace. No face to face teaching, all libraries closed, no emotional support and a bill of £9,000 a year

Itsnotlikethiswithotherpeople · 10/01/2021 00:33

Most students are in private rented houses. Many will have to share a room & younger siblings at their family home being home educated left whilst parents work It’s not hard to see why they might need to come back to their home to study. Never mind the many students who just don’t have a safe place to return.

DimidDavilby · 10/01/2021 00:34

No way is it 200, I would say the majority of the live out students are back.

CherryPieface · 10/01/2021 00:35

Like others have said, it’s their home! Why does it bother you?

Onlinedilema · 10/01/2021 00:37

Like all the reasons suggested. They pay rent, they might have a job where they live, they might need to protect their family, they might not be able to live at home, they might not be able to do their studies in the family home, there might be too many distractions in the family home, they might need support from other students, and also there are other practical courses besides the ones Boris mentioned and you know often it's impossible to do these types of courses in the family hone.

Itsnotlikethiswithotherpeople · 10/01/2021 00:37

Some of it is just government disorganisation and these ridiculous overnight changes. My niece does a practical course but not one that’s getting face to face teaching. At the time she went back there wasn’t a national lockdown and no one knew what subjects would be allowed to attend. She can’t really do her subject without going into uni so she (wrongly it turns out) thought she needed to be back. Students can’t be expected to read the governments mind.

DimidDavilby · 10/01/2021 00:39

All of the cars are back. You see them in and out of each others houses all time they don't follow distancing outside either.

Honestly @Propsneeded I am terrified. They will have brought the new strain with them.

If this government had an inch of sense they could have tested them prior to returning as they were planning to with the school students. Instead they chose to rely on the goodwill of a generation they have fucked over multiple times. Idiocy.

Onlinedilema · 10/01/2021 00:41

Perhaps tell other people not to live in the house they pay rent on and see the responses you get.

Lou98 · 10/01/2021 00:42

@Sparklingbrook

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. 🤷‍♀️

Exactly this ^

Wish people would stick to the coronavirus thread, that's what it's there for 🙄🙄

DimidDavilby · 10/01/2021 00:43

Maybe you should take a trip to the covid free zone @Lou98

TableFlowerss · 10/01/2021 00:43

Well hang on a minute- yesterday’s thread was taken down because it was regarded as ageist because people were talking about older people flouncing the rules.

But this is ok- when it talks about students flouncing the rules?!

How’s that? Double standards or what?!

Not a dig at you OP at all. You’re allowed your opinion. I actually think its shit for the younger ones because they will 99.5% be totally fine so they aren’t doing this to protect themselves.....

MintyMabel · 10/01/2021 00:45

Looking at their list of courses, they have a fair few courses difficult to deliver through online teaching.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 10/01/2021 00:48

My son is in halls at Falmouth, he hasn't gone back and is staying with his dad for now.

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