"Northeastern is not the only school cracking down on students for partying; Many schools around the region, desperate to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak that could topple their carefully orchestrated reopening plans, are punishing students for once-routine campus gatherings" by Deirdre Fernandes and Laura Krantz Globe Staff, September 9, 2020
When Northeastern University dismissed 11 students last week without refunding their $36,500 tuition as punishment for socializing together in a hotel being used for temporary student housing, the move reverberated across higher education as swift and aggressive, perhaps extreme, but quietly, many schools around the region, desperate to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak that could topple their carefully orchestrated reopening plans, are cracking down on students who violate strict new regulations for gatherings.
That's your first le$$on, students: the art of THEFT!
Related: Expelled From Northeastern
What students and parents should be telling them is only 6% of the deaths are from COVID, whatever that is if it even exists at all, and 90% of the cases upon which they are basing this are non-infectious false positives according to the New York Times.
It is time to call out criminal authority and tell them to FUCK OFF!!!
At Boston University, nine students face suspension if they break another rule after they were caught socializing in a dorm without masks, and 15 others may be punished for similar violations. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the College of the Holy Cross have issued sanctions or launched disciplinary proceedings against students for breaking coronavirus directives. Other institutions, including New York University and West Virginia University, have suspended dozens of rule-breaking undergraduates.
Hell, might as well fall upon the chaperone and devour them.
The tyranny based on damnable lies must come to an end now!
Most campuses are allowing only a handful of students to gather at a time depending on the size of the space, have limited the number of visitors who can enter dorms, and are requiring masks in most common areas.
While some students and families applaud the discipline as a public health imperative, there are growing fears that the expectations for students are unrealistic and that the sanctions are so severe they could open universities to legal challenges.
I would CERTAINLY HOPE SO, and WhereTF are the LAWYERS anyway?
Don't they realize there will be NO NEED FOR THEM SOON if this is allowed to continue?
“There’s been nothing like this,” said Peter Lake, director of the center for higher education law and policy at Stetson University in Florida. Colleges were forced to create new rules and tough sanctions to respond to the requirements of operating a campus in a pandemic, but in the process have left themselves open to a raft of criticisms, he said.
“You lured people back to campus and dropped a hammer in a way that’s unfamiliar,” Lake said.
Interesting choice of words seeing as sexual predators dominate education staffing, and WHO FORCED THEM to do this?
Emma Wells, a parent from Maryland with two sons in college, one a sophomore at WPI, said she feels misled by the school. Over the summer, WPI emphasized the welcoming environment it would create despite the challenges of social distancing, but downplayed the severity of the rules and their consequences, she said.
“I’m not going to say a high-end prison, but it’s really strict, you can’t hang out with anybody,” Wells said.
The "kids" are NO LONEGR ADULTS in the eyes of the "educators," and ARE YOU PARENTS SICK OF BEING LIED TO YET?
Her son was recently asked to leave WPI housing after he and four of his roommates were found socializing and drinking in their on-campus apartment with five female classmates. The five male students were kicked out of housing, while the women were asked to write an essay, she said. The school, which said it could not comment on the matter, has allowed Wells to appeal the decision and she is waiting for the response.
WHAT?
What is with the MALE-HATING DISCRIMINATION and HUMILIATION of the FEMALES?
Nothing like a DOUBLE-STANDARD from HYPOCRITICAL TYRANTS in the "education" field!
Her older son, at Boston College, reported that some students have moved their parties off-campus on the weekends, including to New Hampshire. They may not be breaking any rules but could pose a greater risk for spreading COVID-19, Wells said.
“What is the lesser of the two evils?” she said.
Still evil.
WPI spokeswoman Colleen Wamback said the school provided students and parents many documents explaining the rules this semester and students signed forms acknowledging they understood. Parents received a copy of the housing and dining contract, which states the school may terminate the agreement if the student represents “a threat to the health or safety of anyone.”
The only threat to their health is the food!
The situation underscores how much has changed since the pandemic began, but in the era of COVID-19, behaviors that are integral to college life, from having friends over to meeting new people at a party, have become grounds for harsh punishment.
Oh, now you kids are being PUNISHED by the SCHOOLS that only care about you!
Of course, if a PARENT DOES THAT it is CHILD ABUSE in the eyes of SCHOOL and STATE!
What EVIL FUCKERS!!!!
Boston University, for example, has said that students caught at a party of 25 or more people will be suspended for the remainder of the semester and their tuition won’t be refunded. Such large gatherings haven’t been a problem yet, but students have been caught gathering in slightly smaller groups, said Kenneth Elmore, the university’s associate provost and dean of students.
Nine BU students already have received a deferred suspension, meaning any other violation this academic year and they will be kicked out of school for the semester and lose any tuition and room and board costs they’ve paid. Elmore said he is reviewing another case involving a 15-student gathering in a dorm room.
They are on double-secret probation,
Several BU students also have been caught trying to skirt the university’s strict guest policy and bring friends into the residence halls who aren’t allowed. University officials are considering whether those students could be removed from housing and forced to take classes remotely, Elmore said.
Time for all you kids to DROP OUT!
The university will sometimes give refunds to students if they’re suspended, but isn’t doing so for COVID-related infractions to ensure the rules are followed, he said.
“We’re in a situation where there’s not a lot of room for error,” Elmore said. “We’re in a different environment, and we’ve got to employ different approaches. Nobody wants to be shut down. If we drag our feet . . . we run the risk of exposing people unnecessarily.”
F**K OFF, liar!
Governor Charlie Baker said that in the Northeastern case, “the rules are the rules."
"They were established up front, everybody attested to them, and they broke them,” he said. “I feel terrible for the kids and I feel terrible for their families, OK?”
Yeah, sure you do, a$$hole.
Somebody should be flooding the courts with lawsuits against him and the schools, and then hang that f**ker from the nearest lamppost!
Will Creeley, legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a free-speech advocacy group, said the organization received a half-dozen complaints over COVID-related cases last weekend — an unusually high number — and a similar number the weekend before.
“There should be some element of mercy and patience here as we navigate the pandemic,” Creeley said.
You expect mercy and patience from this criminally tyrannical government?
Universities also are relying on students to monitor each other and using tip lines and photos on social media to catch violators, an approach that raises ethical and legal questions about surveillance.
“There’s a difference between one being their brother’s keeper and an informant,” Creeley said. “We don’t know how long it will last, or the effects of it long term.”
That is your second lesson, kids.
The college has created a STASI!
At some point, the snitches are going to have the shit beat out of them!
At Wentworth, in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, a new anonymous tip line for COVID-19 rule violations has been used frequently.
Like a GESTAPO (with all due apologies to the Gestapo, who never dreamed of shit like this).
Most students have acted responsibly, a university spokesman said, but some have not complied with the guest, mask, or distancing policies and have been kicked off campus pending a disciplinary hearing.
Luke Bassett, a first-year Wentworth student from Westbrook, Conn., said he appreciates that the school made the new restrictions and guidelines clear. The president sent the campus an e-mail warning that students who jeopardize the health of their peers will “lose the privilege of being a Wentworth student,” and that those who host gatherings on or off campus that violate city, state, or campus rules will be suspended or expelled, he said, but regulating thousands of students, especially when they are with friends, is sure to be a challenge, he said.
Well, you PAID for the "privilege" that these $tinking elites are living off and citing, and what $cum has taken over education, 'eh?
“The struggle isn’t to make the rules,” Bassett said. “It’s enforcing the rules.”
They seem to be doing just fine with enforcement, no?
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The Globe is of the opinion that college students now need a bailout as the pandemic has reduced the quality of higher education, though many students are still paying sky-high costs, and they say colleges — and the government — should fix it(!??!).
You kids really are stupid, expecting those who created the problem to fix it and the Globe is LAUGHING ABOUT IT:
"It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to Boston, America’s premier college town and petri dish! Northeastern has already kicked out 11 freshman for inexplicably acting their age, after they were found to be behaving like teenagers who had just been put up in a swanky hotel. This violation occurred after school administrators took a bunch of teenagers and put them up in a swanky hotel. Surely, that swift disciplinary action will serve as a warning to all and put a stop to college kids misbehaving, but just to be on the safe side, we’d like you to take a moment to please review and sign this pledge, which will ensure that we have gone through the motions of pretending there is some way this will work out....."
Oh, you kids are a FUCKING TEST SUBJECT in an EXPERIMENT to these DETE$TABLE CREATURES that write for the Globe!
Yup, BETTER BEHAVE KIDS -- or ELSE!
Related:
"Bradley University in central Illinois is requiring its entire student body to quarantine for two weeks because of clusters of COVID-19 on campus and is reverting to remote learning, officials announced Tuesday. Officials of the private university said they have linked a spike of the coronavirus to off-campus gatherings. The Peoria university is requiring students to limit nonessential interactions, stay in their off-campus apartments, residence halls or Greek houses and take classes remotely beginning Tuesday. In announcing the measure, the university said it has tallied about 50 COVID-19 cases so far, adding emergency measures are needed to respond to the outbreak without disrupting academic progress....."
Time to EMPTY the CLASSROOMS:
"State labor board rules Andover teachers participated in illegal strike" bvy James Vaznis Globe Staff, September 9, 2020
In a decision that could upend efforts to disrupt the opening of school across Massachusetts, the state labor relations board has ruled that Andover teachers engaged in an unlawful strike when they refused to enter school buildings last week over fears of unsafe working conditions.
The ruling comes at the end of a turbulent summer in which the state’s largest teachers unions have been urging their members to stay out of school buildings if local and state officials can’t prove they have the appropriate measures in place to protect students and staff from contracting the coronavirus. Instead, the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts have instructed staff to work remotely, but in Andover — one of the first testing grounds of the unions' workplace safety strategy — the labor relations board determined the Andover Education Association overstepped its authority by instructing its members not to go inside school buildings on Aug. 31 for staff training, deeming their actions an “unlawful strike.”
You have taught Communism, and now you get to live under it!
Nice job, teach!
State law forbids unionized public employees from striking and Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, blamed Governor Charlie Baker for the work action.
Can you teach the kids how to tie a knot?
At a press conference Wednesday, Baker said he supported the ruling. “I applaud the decision,” he said. “It was the right one.”
He voiced frustration about teachers refusing to go inside buildings for training, noting the state had negotiated a deal this summer with the statewide unions that allowed districts to convert 10 instructional days for students into teacher training days in recognition of all the changes in workplace and teaching conditions brought about by the pandemic.
FUCK HIM!
(Blog author apologizes for the profanities; however, in this context it is a far, far lesser evil than what is the subject of commentary)
Tara Dunham, mother of a sixth- and seventh-grader in the Andover schools, said she is glad that officials are pushing to reopen classrooms. As a licensed mental health counselor, she said, she has seen the devastating effects the closure has had on her adolescent clients and worries about the long-term implications.
“When kids become depressed, they don’t know they are depressed. They just want to stay home and not do anything,” Dunham said, but she said she wishes there was less animosity around school reopening, likening the atmosphere to a “dysfunctional family,” and while there are philosophical differences between teachers and administrators, she said many teachers are still thinking of their students.....
That's just being a kid, and we should all do that until this goddamn fraud and planned $camdemic is lifted in its entirety!
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Take a look at the classroom in this link:
"Employees at the Mildred Avenue K-8 in Mattapan and the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester have been preparing in a variety of ways, including cleaning classrooms, setting up socially distant learning environments, installing plexiglass in shared spaces, and setting up cameras for teachers to instruct students remotely while others are in person. Boston Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said she’s confident schools will be safe to open for some prioritized students next month. “We’ve been working all summer and the spring to get ready for this moment,” Cassellius said. “We’re only going to bring back our students and staff if it’s safe to do so.” The district has contracted outside companies to repair nearly 7,000 windows across the district, where the majority of schools will rely on windows and box fans to move air in and out of classrooms. Maintenance workers have installed clear vinyl curtains between the school secretary’s desks and students who may visit the main office. Signs have been posted in stairwells directing traffic in one direction. The district is distributing 6,000 clear plexiglass sheets for teachers to create barriers in their classrooms....."
Should prop up oil prices anyway.
Related:
"A month into the forced reopening of Florida’s schools, dozens of classrooms — along with some entire schools — have been temporarily shuttered because of coronavirus outbreaks, and infections among school-age children have jumped 34 percent, but parents in many parts of the state don’t know if outbreaks of the virus are related to their own schools because the state ordered some counties to keep health data secret. Volunteers around the state have set up their own school-related coronavirus dashboards, and one school district is using Facebook after the county health department was told to stop releasing information about cases tied to local schools....."
Would it surprise you that Ma$$achu$etts is also hiding the data and keeping it secret?
Also see:
Sandra Fenwick, CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital, plans to retire in March
Evil $kank!
Another article on the Globe's front page was Woodward's piece of $hit book, and the Globe's editorializing about it didn't go down well and made me want to vomit along with their National/World lead.
As for Woodward, it is by now well known that he is a Deep State asset who has been deployed due to Trump's recent antiwar tendencies, although I suspect that is simply campaign maneuvering and rhetoric, and now a huge fire has broken out at the Beirut port that was bombed last month.
This was at the bottom of the front page:
"Harvard Law School researchers published a sweeping study Wednesday that confirmed what many people of color and criminal justice reform advocates have been saying for years: Black and Latino people make up a disproportionately high percentage of criminal cases in Massachusetts and, when convicted, are given longer sentences than their white counterparts. While research has long revealed a similarly troubling pattern in court systems around the country, the new study was conducted at the request of Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, and with uncommon access to state criminal records. It provides a framework not just to understand the ethnic and racial disparities in charging and sentencing, officials said, but to begin to correct them......"
That's the dirty secret of Ma$$achu$etts Ju$tu$, and there is no concern (or distance) regarding the agenda-pushing protests that led the first page of the Metro section -- probably because it's a higher cause then COVID, even though there is no longer any Protest Notebook in my printed Globe these days as they push forward the cause of civil rights for an educated young Latina.
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"Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s sticking with his projection that a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine may be ready in early 2021. He says it’s possible it could be sooner, but “unlikely.” The White House adviser on the coronavirus told “CBS This Morning “the more likely scenario is that we will know by the end of this calendar year and hopefully we’ll be able to start vaccinations in earnest as we begin early 2021.” Fauci says it’s routine for late-stage vaccine studies to be put on hold because of side effects. Fauci also expressed frustration Wednesday that President Trump continues to hold large campaign rallies amid the pandemic -- gatherings where many people, including the president, are not wearing masks. He noted that wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing, and avoiding crowds are the kinds of things "that turn around surges and also prevent us from getting surges." His comments come a day after Trump staged a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, N.C., that appears to have defied restrictions from North Carolina governor Roy Cooper, who has limited outdoor gatherings to 50 people under the state's current phase of reopening....."
The NC governor is a Democrat, and why does that farcical fraud Fauci (another lamppost candidate) even have a job anymore as the pandemic seems to be leveling off in U.S., meaning it is NO LONGER a PANDEMIC -- if it ever was, and as I said yesterday, the pause is nothing but pure propaganda to sell the poisonous potion in the toxic tubes:
“This ought to be reassuring to everybody listening. When we say we are going to focus first on safety and make no compromises, this is exhibit A,” said NIH Director Francis Collins said during a congressional hearing Wednesday....."
Just think, you will soon be able to dine in New York again (at increased expense, of cour$e), but no smoking:
"Teenagers’ e-cigarette use declined this year, according to an influential annual survey, marking a positive trend that health officials say still leaves the number of users too high, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, which is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration....."
If it comes from the CDC and FDA, you know it's $tinks.
Speaking of $hit that stinks:
"A study by researchers at the University of Reading in England found that soccer matches played at near-empty stadiums still led to higher cases of coronavirus infections and COVID-19 fatalities in the area. The report, released Wednesday, compared the number of local virus cases and deaths following soccer matches held in April in stadiums with limited attendance with rates following games played in the weeks before England suspended the usual season in March. “The findings suggest that reopening stadiums with reduced capacities is unlikely to reduce rates of transmission on its own, without effective social distancing measures for fans before, during and after matches,” a University of Reading news release on the study concluded. The study found that on average, a soccer match led to six more coronavirus infections, two COVID-19 fatalities and three additional excess deaths per 100,000 people in the area where it took place. Sports stadiums around the world have grappled with how and when to reopen to players and fans amid fears that these traditionally crowded spaces could be fodder for the virus. The researchers said that their “results suggest caution in returning to unrestricted spectator attendance at matches.” They continued, “We caveat our analysis though by noting that stadium access and egress routes can be adapted such that some of the opportunities for the spread of an airborne virus could be mitigated. We recommend that the relevant authorities conduct pilot events before determining to what extent fans can return to mass outdoor events.”
I guess there is no level of insulting absurdity the circus clowns of the pre$$ expect us to believe, and they wonder why we hate them?
Now EMPTY STADIUMS can INFECT YOU with COVID but NOT AGENDA-PUSHING PROTESTS in $elf-$erving causes, and don't worry, I won't be returning to $port$ anytime soon, and that includes watching them on TeeVee!
Related:
"The British government backed a series of measures Wednesday it hopes will stem a worrying increase in new coronavirus cases, particularly among young adults, including a legally enforced ban on any social gatherings of more than six people in England. In the biggest reversal of the months-long easing of the lockdown, it said social gatherings in England will be limited to a maximum of six people, either inside or outside of the home. The new limit will be in place from Monday and police will be able to fine, and even arrest, anyone breaching the rules. Among other measures, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “COVID-secure marshals” will be introduced to help ensure social distancing in city centers and that border force officials will step up enforcement efforts to ensure arrivals are complying with the quarantine rules. He also said that pubs and restaurants will have to take the contact details of all customers or face sanctions, and he put sports teams on notice that supporters may not return to stadiums in October as hoped.
As he hoped, yeah.
I thought you guys beat the Nazis, and this is FAR WORSE for JOLLY OLD ENGLAND.
The British need to DESCEND on DOWNING STREET and PARLIAMENT NOW!
“These measures are not another national lockdown,” Johnson said at a media briefing behind a podium bearing the government’s new slogan “Hands Face Space.” “The whole point of them is to avoid another national lockdown.” Acknowledging that the myriad of rules on gatherings have become “complicated and confusing,” Johnson said more clarity was required in light of the recent sharp spike in cases in a country that has seen Europe's deadliest coronavirus outbreak. “Now you only need to remember the ‘rule of six,’" he said.
So he is also a disassembling liar, and need I remind you of the cratering death rates and 90% false positives?
The f**ker is sticking with his story no matter how foolish it makes him look.
The new limits on gatherings are set to be in place for months, a timescale that potentially dashes any hopes of large family gatherings during Christmas. Johnson said he was “still hopeful” that a “moonshot” plan of mass testing — accompanied by results within minutes — could bring many aspects of life back to some sort of normality, even of ending the need for social distancing among those who test negative. He reiterated that the government was aiming for 500,000 daily tests by the end of October, more than double the current amount.
With more testing comes more false positives, so this guy is a complete fraud and massive tyrant.
Australia and New Zealand come to the U.K., 'eh?
The new limit on gatherings follows a near doubling in new confirmed virus infections over the past week or so that government figures show has been largely seen among young adults, particularly those between the ages of 17 and 21. On Sunday and Monday, the number of daily laboratory-confirmed positive cases hit nearly 3,000. On Wednesday, a further 2,659 were announced.
90% of which are FALSE POSITIVES!
Citing the example of Belgium, the government's chief medical officer said limits on gatherings can help prevent the spike in cases among young adults from seeping through to more vulnerable people, such as the elderly, in the run-up to winter. "This is clear indication that if you act rapidly and decisively when these changes are happening, there is a reasonable chance, a good chance, to bring the rates back under control," Chris Whitty said. “People shouldn’t just see this as a very short term thing,” he said.
WAKE the FUCK UP, EUROPE!
Though there are exemptions, such as for schools, workplaces and “life events” like funerals and weddings, Johnson said he is hopeful the new limits will be easily understood and followed. Those flouting the rules could be fined — 100 pounds ($130) for a first offense, and up to a potential 3,200 pounds (more than $4,000). Stephen Griffin, associate professor in the school of medicine at the University of Leeds, said the new limits are “welcome and timely,” but that “it would be wise for all the (U.K.) nations to co-ordinate in their response, and to learn from each other where various approaches have been successful.”
You globalists can shove it up your infected asses!
The U.K. has Europe’s worst death toll from the virus, with nearly 41,600 deaths within 28 days of testing positive. The actual toll is believed to be far higher as the government tally doesn't include those who died without having been tested.
Nothing like a nice, big fat lie from the pre$$ as they ignore and omit things!
Johnson’s Conservative government has faced strong criticism for its mixed messages since it started easing the coronavirus lockdown in late spring. It spent much of the summer, for example, encouraging people to eat out to help the hard-pressed hospitality sector and is now urging workers to return to their offices to help hard-hit businesses in city centers. Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said the new shackles on everyday life represent an acknowledgement from the government that it had got things badly wrong in recent months. “I think the government’s now acknowledged that their poor communications were a large part of the problem so that’s got to be fixed," he said. “but we support the principle of the measures and we ask everybody to follow those rules."
Meaning there is NO POLITICAL OPPOSITION to BJ's TYRANNY!
Also see:
Britain’s health secretary says the asymptomatic don’t need tests
Forget the f**king mixed messages from the Boris the tyrant!
Time to give him the Charles the First treatment!
Also see:
"U.N.-backed experts have found evidence that rebels in Yemen recruited nearly three dozen teenage girls — some said to be survivors of sexual violence — as spies, medics, guards and members of an all-female force, according to a report released Wednesday. The findings came in the third and latest report by the “group of eminent experts” commissioned by the Human Rights Council to investigate alleged rights violations by all sides in the war since September 2014. The devastating conflict in the Arab world’s poorest country has spawned what the United Nations calls the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. “The parties to the conflict continue to show no regard for international law or the lives, dignity, and rights of the people of Yemen, while third states have helped perpetuate the conflict by continuing to supply the parties with weapons,” said the report. The report, based on more than 400 accounts and focusing mainly on a period from July 2019 to June this year, highlighted how a generation of Yemen’s children have been “immeasurably damaged through child recruitment, abuse, and deprivation of their most basic human rights, including education.”
Did the Saudi mass slaughter and cholera epidemic make the report as well, or is this just more one-sided, demonizing crap coming from the JU.N.?
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At least Mayor Marty Walsh has kept Boston safe during the coronavirus despite the moment of political faux pas— and he is banking on leadership as a campaign theme in what looks to be an upcoming challenge from Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu as he cleans up the city.
Meanwhile, as the criminal governor pats himself on the back cases are spiking in the hot spots, or so we are told, and nearly 60 workers in Mass. have died of COVID-19 after potentially being exposed on the job, according to a safety coalition report so getting an early flu shot is crucial this fall to avert ‘twindemic,’ say doctors so that the flu won't merge with COVID.
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Korro Bio raises $90m to fix mutations that cause diseases
Casma raises another $50m to target muscular dystrophy
Amwell aims to raise up to $560 million in IPO
Boston-based software security company Snyk raises $200M
Sure is a lot of money out there when it comes to advancing the Great Re$et.
Also see:
Plainridge becomes latest casino to cut ties with furloughed staff
It's the the death of a dream for some but life is a gamble, right?
