Well...that is rather odd...though it is an emersion course, thus meaning only a single language can be spoken. I wonder what Middlebury would do with their summer program if that happened... (at Middlebury, their summer languages state that you can only speak the language you are learning --even if you're a first year student-- otherwise you're actually expelled...and they've done it before...damn good program though) Satyagraha
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Is Middlebury in Vermont? I think my sister looked into their French program.
Dagonee
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Why don't they just spank the offenders and get on with life? Expulsion? The whole concept of higher education is getting increasingly unpalatable in my view. You pay thousands of dollars to take a risk that they are going to fail you. But because it is aggressively marketed to us from infancy, we fall all over ourselves to get in.
I would be just shocked to have heard myself opine this a few years ago. But unless they pay my kids to go, they ain't going. I know they will make less money, but financial security is less about how much is made than about how much is spent. IMHO.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
pooka, what if they want to do work that requires a degree? You can't be a teacher, a doctor, or an engineer without one.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
And I would rather watch people fail then to graduate with a degree they should never have earned.
As pointed out, I'd rather not have a doctor get his degree because he didn't remember his medical courses, but the school didn't fail him because they didn't want him to feel bad about himself.
-Trevor
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
It's really hard to fail out of state universities. I'm a fan of programs, especially in language, that are stricter.
Not that this has anything to do with the above story...
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