Editorial: A new extracurricular: Suing colleges for a COVID-19-tainted experience (via latimesopinion)
Among the many millions of people who have gotten a raw deal this spring are college students who were suddenly told by their schools to pack up, head home and spend the rest of the semester learning online. For some of them, especially foreign students with no place to stay and no way to get home, it was a nightmare.
Colleges refunded money for the room and board that wasn’t getting used. Yet some students are demanding partial tuition refunds too. Lawsuits have been filed against more than two dozen colleges and universities, including Ivy League and state schools, claiming that online courses simply aren’t the same as those taught in classrooms, even when the same professors are teaching.
College tuition is crazy expensive, and parents who have paid it understandably think they’re not getting their money’s worth. But colleges also have faced extra costs as they’ve shifted suddenly from campus-based to computer-based. They still must pay professors, who still must teach the courses. They have to deep-clean their campuses and maintain buildings and grounds. Many of them paid to send low-income and foreign students home, and they are losing money from the closed dormitories.
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