Thread by @opinion

Did you shell out $55,000 to watch your college professor on Zoom all year?

Do you think the college broke the promises they made to get you to enroll?

If you could sue your university for charging you the same amount for remote learning, would you?

If you said 'yes' to the above, you're not alone.

Students displeased with remote learning have filed hundreds of lawsuits seeking tuition refunds from their universities. But the defendants are mostly winning, and we should be worried about how bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Plaintiff after plaintiff argues that schools have breached contracts requiring:

🎒In-person classes
🤝Networking opportunities
🌷All the benefits of bright, cheery campuses
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Many colleges are financially strapped, and tuition refunds would put them further in the red.

But institutions should consider the long-term consequences of pursuing what amounts to an argument that the campus experience is worthless, writes @StepCarter bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The fine print says schools reserve the right to make changes without notice in the courses and offerings.

Colleges and universities had to make swift decisions on how best to continue instruction to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Judges across the country noted that courts are ill-suited to second-guess the decisions of academic authorities on how best to continue their pedagogical mission in the midst of a swift-moving crisis bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Colleges are acting like used car salesmen, arguing that students should have read the fine print before sending in those tuition checks.

But when many students completely misunderstand the terms of their agreements, it's possible they are being misled bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…