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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 3652815, member: 7511"] Your son is not alone, with some estimates indicating 40% declines in enrollment at US colleges. I also sympathize with the concern of many, that online learning “cheapens” the college experience, although very few colleges are actually reducing tuition charges. Social interaction and growth is a key element of the college experience. So too is physical access to faculty, administrators, libraries and labs. It’s difficult to see how remote learning, even at the finest colleges in America, is in anyway superior to online learning at a local community college. There is a great scene in [I]Good Will Hunting[/I] when Matt Damon confronts an obnoxious Harvard student by telling him, “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got with $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” That sort of expresses my general view on remote learning. [/QUOTE]