I’m currently attending a webinar where the speaker is spelling out some pretty serious doom and gloom for education.
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Mop (aka rburriel)
Jul 27 '20, 16:03
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While this is specific to higher education, it’ll be the same for K-12. And, let’s be honest, he’s just being pragmatic. None of this should be surprising. It’s just that most people aren’t willing to see it.
In previous periods of economic uncertainty, especially with high numbers of unemployment, people could go to school to learn new trades. That seems less likely this time because of the pandemic. Some schools are really struggling to teach online. And students are increasingly expecting to get a cut in tuition if they’re going to be learning online instead of in the classroom. Furthermore, state budgets are going to get increasingly thin as they deal with the pandemic, health care, more unemployed people, and less payroll revenue, all of which will hit public institutions hard. Less public events and sporting events means less revenue for schools. New dorm policies means less students in the dorms so less revenue there, as well. Furthermore, there’s a belief that what you learn online isn’t as good as what you learn in person. It’s a perfect storm of bad news for higher education. We’re headed towards Idocracy sooner rather than later.
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