The way colleges/universities work in the US is so odd to me. There’s so many contradictions:
- You pay for a service where the amount you pay far outweighs the value of the service, by orders of magnitude. This is allowed because the amount is often obscured and deferred from the customer. The student is allowed to make this choice because they’re an “adult” and it serves the interests of the school.
- Then, instead of getting treated like the adult you are legally, you get infantilized. Like the idea of paying above what market rent would be to live in a “dorm” and have an RA conduct room checks to make sure you’re following arbitrary rules. Classes you pay obscene money for require attendance like you’re a child. Forced meal plans, etc… Schools banning the consumption of alcohol entirely.
And then they do stuff like this. It sounds like they’re just blocking it from their network, which is their choice. But based on the way these schools behave it wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to enact an actual ban on having the app installed on your phone. They seem to think they have the authority to dictate how people live their lives to an uncomfortable degree.
- You pay for a service where the amount you pay far outweighs the value of the service, by orders of magnitude. This is allowed because the amount is often obscured and deferred from the customer. The student is allowed to make this choice because they’re an “adult” and it serves the interests of the school.
- Then, instead of getting treated like the adult you are legally, you get infantilized. Like the idea of paying above what market rent would be to live in a “dorm” and have an RA conduct room checks to make sure you’re following arbitrary rules. Classes you pay obscene money for require attendance like you’re a child. Forced meal plans, etc… Schools banning the consumption of alcohol entirely.
And then they do stuff like this. It sounds like they’re just blocking it from their network, which is their choice. But based on the way these schools behave it wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to enact an actual ban on having the app installed on your phone. They seem to think they have the authority to dictate how people live their lives to an uncomfortable degree.