Over the last couple weeks, as the buzz about going back to school picked up, I would ask students of all ages “What are you most excited about?” The answer: “seeing my friends.”

Among the many reasons online school is not a viable long term option, not hanging out with friends, not meeting potential mates (for life or for the evening), not going to parties and not growing up are the largest.

So when universities put plans together to welcome students back, how naive are these administrators to think parents are paying upwards of $50,000 for ONLY the education? They are paying for the experience. 45% of kids at college have parents who went to college, almost double the percentage of those that didn’t. And what stories do you think the parents remember about their college? AMAT 407 with Dr. JeJe or hanging a clown head in the MGMT building with a sign saying “Do you want fries with that?”

Once the social aspect of college is gone, the value proposition, already on the verge of being a horrible investment for 95% of people, collapses. And with that, so too collapse the institutions that are struggling to realize what college is really about.

That 91% of administrators and professors are Liberals suggests what a Democratic controlled White House would do.

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