{"id":19516,"date":"2020-05-13T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19516"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:36:44","slug":"student-editors-letter-government-fine-print-might-be-too-much-for-college-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/05\/13\/student-editors-letter-government-fine-print-might-be-too-much-for-college-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: Government fine print might be too much for college to handle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is on the edge of their seats: for the first time in two months, we\u2019ve been shown there there is an end to all this\u2026 Well, \u201cchange\u201d would be a better term than \u201cend.\u201d Nothing is ending. But some things could change for the post-secondary sector by the fall.<\/p>\n

After finally getting settled into a routine, students and staff are once again having all feelings of comfort\u2014however short-lived they might have been\u2014uprooted by the thought of going back to campus.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re excited. But just because you\u2019re allowed to do something doesn\u2019t mean you should, or that you have to. Part of phase three of the BC government\u2019s re-opening plan is to allow in-person classes to resume at post-secondary, and also to potentially have routine daily screening protocol for all staff and students. This detail is one of the reasons BC is the place to be right now. It\u2019s measures like that, alongside physical distancing and hand washing, that have kept so many safe and healthy. But it could also mean getting on campus everyday will be a long, arduous process.<\/p>\n

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Camosun’s Lansdowne campus (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We don\u2019t know anything for sure yet, but it demonstrates that being allowed to resume in-person classes and being able to are two different things.<\/p>\n

Will all students file through one entrance in a massive line? You\u2019d have to get school three hours early to do that. Plus, does the college have the resources or the time to do that properly and efficiently? Does it make returning to in-person classes even worth it? The post-secondary sector can operate fairly well online, after all.<\/p>\n

Opening up will be incredibly complicated for Camosun, and my heart goes out to all those working 80-hour weeks right now trying to figure out the details of something that might or might not happen. And even if it does, it could all be shut down with the drop of some moist spittle.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ll be staying at home, taking online classes, and making my life less complicated where I can. Maybe it\u2019s worth it to keep learning remotely for a while longer, as long as it doesn\u2019t impact enrolment too much. We\u2019re seeing government money to post-secondary being cut in other provinces, so unless the government is going to pay for all the associated costs with routine daily screening for all staff and students, this might be a measure the college simply can\u2019t afford to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone is on the edge of their seats: for the first time in two months, we\u2019ve been shown there there is an end to all this\u2026 Well, \u201cchange\u201d would be a better term than \u201cend.\u201d Nothing is ending. But some things could change for the post-secondary sector by the fall. After finally getting settled into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19527,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions\/19527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}