Dear Reader,
The sickness policy here strikes me as completely, unequivocally, Charlie Sheen-esque bad. The program offers students three sick days, which functionally can be taken as vacation days, and after that any further absences substantially lower student grades.
In theory, students would save these days for when they are actually sick. In practice, we're in Europe, and that aint happening, since admitting that your cold will eventually prevent you from going to Africa for that one weekend is a tough pill to swallow. Everyone just shows up.
We also have very tiny classrooms. I am talking five tables with chairs, hello person sitting right next to me, oh I see you are coughing, oh there is a fleck of spittle right on my check, the same check next to my eyes and mouth which are vulnerable orifices of disease reception, tiny. The kind of tiny that isn't ideal for germaphobes.
Why not save the neurotically opposed to unhealthiness among us and just let people stay in while they are under the weather?
College students are not inmates. They are in a class to learn, and while some will abuse a system that say, lets them stay home and not spread their scary, scary germs on friends and loved ones, most probably just go to class. For those who don't, it should be their problem and the results should be their consequences to deal with. If the program gets its money, people are healthy, viruses live shorter lives, who cares about a few missed classes?
Anyways everyone here is sick. Fight the system; stay home and watch TV!
Tim
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