Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 3:28 PM
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Fearing a 'resurgence' of infections, Stanford plans to limit students on campus with mostly online classes this fall
Original post made on Jun 4, 2020
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 3:28 PM
Comments (7)
a resident of Stanford
on Jun 4, 2020 at 1:37 pm
Many Stanford students supposedly sheltering in place in their dorm rooms have been participating in BLM protests around the Bay Area. I anticipate that Stanford will soon be dealing with a Covid-19 resurgence on campus.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jun 4, 2020 at 5:32 pm
Stanford students are currently bullying faculty into waiving final course requirements for all students (Web Link ostensibly so their Black classmates will not need to request accommodations. Will the 20-21 year have the same lack of rigor as the current quarter?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jun 5, 2020 at 5:42 am
Pandemics are caused by travel. Global travel brings new diseases into our community.
Stanford is a basically an educator of foreign and out-of-state (non-Californian) students.
Their faculty regularly travel all over the world giving talks and attending symposiums, and their students fly in (and out) from all over the world - inoculating our community with the latest infections, and carelessly burning tons of jet fuel while loudly preaching against it.
This is what they have done to our community. Stanford hospital used to be a nice community medical center and school - that was until they began competing with UCSF to be the biggest and best medical center.
Now they have become a mega magnet for disease - bringing in Ebola, SARS, MERS, the latest strains of hepatitis, and new Coronavirus into our community - for their pleasure and financial reward. Our community did not ask for this.
Even though students were told to leave campus and return home, the foreign students refused to leave because it would mess up their immigration intentions. They promised the university that they would not to go into our community or travel off campus (but they did).
Stanford students have been shopping for groceries at local stores, going to the beach, hiking, taking part in the protests, and taking various part-time jobs like baby-sitting & tutoring all throughout the pandemic. Some seem to have too much time on their hands now, yet they complain loudly that they are too stressed and busy (now that they have won their tantrum to reclassify and lengthen their visas to stay and work longer in the US), most have received free grant money, and housing.
Some are now fighting with their TA's and professors to be given extensions on their assignments because they spent too much time protesting. I am not kidding. We are living amongst a bunch of super spreading entitled brats.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 5, 2020 at 9:00 am
This plan doesn't make sense as stated here. Why rotate out the students after one quarter, to then rotate them in again for the 3rd quarter? Why not just keep them there for 2 consecutive quarters, send them home and bring in the second group for two quarters. Thus avoiding sending undergrads back and forth and back and forth two times. Some are international students and some have little money for travel. What is the justification for this?
a resident of Mayfield
on Jun 5, 2020 at 11:28 am
>Why not just keep them there for 2 consecutive quarters, send them home and bring in the second group for two quarters.
Most likely each class will spend 2 consecutive quarters on campus and 2 at home on Zoom
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 5, 2020 at 11:46 am
It is an interesting schedule. I wonder what the UC's are planning?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jun 5, 2020 at 12:27 pm
Stanford is giving ALL students the choice of online or in person. Let's make sure PAUSD does this too.
Please support the requirement that for middle school and high school all classes be streamed and recorded for students who are vulnerable, live with vulnerable, are in isolation (infectious), or in quarantine.
For those concerned that Stanford students will bring more Covid-19 to the community. Indeed they may. But, let's focus on what we are doing on our community to keep it safe. Contact tracing, testing (not just fever checks), isolation, and quarantine must be part of our school and business protocols.
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