{"id":24683,"date":"2020-10-03T01:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2020-10-03T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:25:12","slug":"this-is-the-problem-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24683","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Problem &#8211; Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"297\" title=\"Virus image\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/297;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Virus image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/virus.png\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">An <a title=\"Students should not foot blame for Northumbria outbreak, pupils and parents say\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/students-should-not-foot-blame-for-northumbria-outbreak-pupils-and-parents-say\/ar-BB19Esfh?ocid=msedgntp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in PA Media declares \u201cstudents should not foot blame for Northumbria [university] outbreak, pupils and parents say\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It quotes a mother &#8211; Sara from Kent (and it\u2019s no surprise she \u2018didn\u2019t want to give her second name\u2019) &#8211; who saw:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;no evidence of security checks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No one patrols the corridors to see if there are parties going on, so students are breaking the rules with impunity&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So how in f**k\u2019s name does she reach the conclusion that students \u2018aren\u2019t to blame\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>If the immature morons are \u2018partying with impunity\u2019, which they\u2019ve been told not to, then they <strong>ARE<\/strong> to blame. Absolutely and categorically.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no point singling out individuals who have toed the line. Even in normal years, some students don\u2019t get involved in parties and stupid stunts. They\u2019re there to get a degree and that\u2019s all. But every year, a significant number of them are geared up to behave like assholes. They\u2019ve only <strong>gone<\/strong> to university to behave like assholes. That\u2019s how university works. Jesus. If you\u2019ve enrolled on a Mickey Mouse course outside of the core sciences or arts, what other reason would you have to be there? And it\u2019s even worse this year, with those guessed grades that got them in. It\u2019s a case of \u2018party hard because I\u2019m going to flunk it, and I need something to boast about in three years\u2019 time for my CV\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it\u2019s Newcastle. And I know for an absolute fact that choosing Newcastle for most students is based on the rumours of the nightlife up that way. It comes up every time I end up teaching someone who wants to go there &#8211; it\u2019s the main reason they want to.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in PA Media declares \u201cstudents should not foot blame for Northumbria [university] outbreak, pupils and parents say\u201d. It quotes a mother &#8211; Sara from Kent (and it\u2019s no surprise she \u2018didn\u2019t want to give her second name\u2019) &#8211; who saw: &#8230;no evidence of security checks&#8230; No one patrols the corridors to see if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}