@smokeminside posted:Had town hall meetings with both boys' college admins. The kids are gonna be so locked down they're both thinking about just staying home and doing their course work on line.
Very few courses at either school will meet in person. Major restrictions on going off campus, no guests from off-campus, no food delivery, grab n go meals. How are they gonna get their beer? Besides, who wants to drink alone?
Amherst is lowering its # of credits to graduate from 32 to 30 (each credit essentially meaning one course). Courses will be graded as usual.
RE: athletics Amherst is going through a phased opening. First phase: Teams can practice ten kids at a time with a coach or staff member to enforce social distancing. They can't share any equipment which means they can't even play catch. I guess if they're COVID free for two weeks they can then start sharing some equipment. If each school gets to spring relatively intact and all students back, they'll have a season but it will probably be just against conference foes, and highly condensed. No spring break, no overnight trips.
To borrow a phrase, baseball may be ending for a while not with a bang, but a whimper.
Thanks for the info. You've heard more than I have from either of my kids' colleges.
Did the schools say how they plan to enforce restrictions on going off campus, ordering food delivery, etc.? I assume it's mostly on a honor system, unless you are careless enough to get caught by an Authority Figure? No food delivery surprises me, since a) that's not considered much of a risk and b) one reason schools offer for bringing students back is the economic impact on their towns. Plus, eating nothing but grab and go dining hall food straight through until Thanksgiving could be rough. Not even grocery deliveries so kids can stock snacks in their rooms?
Given the restrictions, any idea if baseball will schedule official fall workouts? And can those initial ten-person workouts be in the weight room?
Sorry to pepper you with questions. And I realize you may not know the answers (especially given that the schools don't have all the answers yet themselves).