Traditional students rebelling against online education

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About 20 years ago, I attended a graduation at a small, an extremely expensive college. One of the student speakers told of how, when she was very young, her father, a farmer, told her that if she wanted to go to college, she'd have to pay for it. The family simply couldn't afford it. She spoke of how she had to work as part of the financial aid, and all of the things she missed because of it. Further, she said that students SHOULDN'T have to work as part of the financial aid because of the school experiences that they missed, and the connections that couldn't be formed.  I rolled my eyes.

President Richard Nixon (Tricky Dick) went to Duke Law as a work / study scholarship and liked to tell about wearing the little white coat and serving meals and busing tables for the frat boys in the fraternity and then sitting in class with them. Then sitting in the freezing cold with an overcoat while he hard butt studied in the little shed he rented. His experience with that social distancing experience was his own trigger event.

Working in the library and hiding in the stacks and missing the parties. I can imagine her poor farmer father sitting in the audience wondering where he went wrong.

I'm still plodding along and grateful for this forum.