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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by micnd90@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

$3 billion dollar annual endowment, 62k a year tuition, cannot afford to pay TAs

Boston University Graduate Students are on strike, follow them at https://twitter.com/gradworkersofBU

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

rainbolt a++, extra credit – send it. loud clicking noise nice

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

We seriously have every single Internet personality in our emoji store don't we hey-vsauce-michael-here

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

we have rainbolt?

YSF you are the goat fr

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

We're close to the final stage, all the decision makers are either true believers misled by propaganda or people aware of the situation and looting it.

Surely it can't stand for much longer sicko-wistful

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Can you believe it? Every single person in the class got an A+

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Great Race to The Bottom has another interesting twist in the final stretch, let's see how this plays out!

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

I hope students sue the school for failing to provide the bare minimum to them. Trump University presumably doesn't make students grade themselves. The for-profit schools that advertise on late night TV at least pay someone with a degree to look over what the students submit. This would be as disruptive to my education as COVID was and those consequences would continue in the classes which utilise information from these.

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Grading yourself is also extra work, time commitment and opportunity cost for no benefit - you could've studied for an upcoming exam or do other assignments instead. Not to mention that this is literally forcing students to scab their TAs

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

All students send in a self assessment: Grade: A Justification: get fucked, you greedy scum.

[-] Moonworm@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

So annoying how the students need to be taught and have their shit graded, it cuts into the amount of money the school can invest, why can't they just pay tuition and not use the indoor rock-climbing gym?

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Now the students are going to go on strike for doing the unpaid labor of grading themselves.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Pay several thousands of dollars per year to be a scab! A prestigious scab.

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