[1952] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (grace)
Mon Jul 3 17:11:19 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:07:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: grace <gkenney@mit.edu>
To: Robotica <androidqueen@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9bde964c0607031356h68703c57oc8303890d043c027@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: reubano@alum.mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu, faber@alum.mit.edu,
Michael Shaw <mshaw@mit.edu>, "Pius A. Uzamere II" <pius@alum.mit.edu>
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
i agree with the fact that the dining dollars, as the system has been
described, don't necessarily do that [unless it would not be possible for
a student enrolled in the dining dollars program to put their own money
into a normal tech cash account.] it's the stated motivation that i
find more worrisome. if a parent is providing food-money or an allowance
to their child, they'll have to work out the terms with the student [and
they'll have to decide how much they trust the student.] i don't see any
reason for MIT to get involved, or for MIT to try to actively make it
easier for parents to monitor and dictate their student's behavior.
-grace
gibbering like hunter thompson on a revolutionary drug, androidqueen@gmail....:
>> furthermore - again, does MIT want to embrace the idea that undergraduates
>> are more or less adults, or does it want to treat them as children? the
>> trend has been towards the latter, yes, but in the past, MIT has generally
>> espoused the idea that MIT students are intelligent and mature enough to
>> deal with a certain amount of independence. parents who didn't dorm
>> choice {oh no, my little darling is going to live in a shithole like
>> EC?} had to suck it up or work it out with their kids. giving the
>> institute and parents more control over students' lives is a step away
>> from that - and yeah, it's something that i think should be fought.
>
> at the risk of making a lot of enemies, i'd say that this plan does
> not treat students like children. if you pay for your
> TechCash/whatever, you're allowed to do what you want with your money
> (much the way that, as an adult, i like to put my money in different
> places to help me improve my spending habits), and, if your parents
> pay for your TechCash/whatever, then they can specifiy that they only
> want you to buy food with it. if students want to buy things that
> their folks don't want them to buy, they'll have to become somewhat
> financially independant.
>
> -m
>
> --
> ninjaneer. geomancer. licensed scientician.
>
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