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0 pointsshakna1y ago0 comments

The student is the employer, though. They are paying the university for a service. They aren't the employee.

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Planktonne1y ago· 2 in thread

The student is the customer, not the employer, if you must phrase it in those terms.

And I think education benefits when you define the student as a student, before anything else.

Jonathan Haidt details quite a few reasons why treating a student as a customer creates bad incentives and poor outcomes (just agreeing with you on the student-first point)

shaknaOP1y ago

Those educational benefits are being denied here, for reasons outside the customers hands.

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