<p><a href=“After Being Denied A Snow Day, University Of Illinois Students Respond With Racism And Sexism”>http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/after-being-denied-a-snow-day-university-of-illinois-student</a></p>
<p>Twitter brings out the worst in people. I feel sorry for kids growing up in this social media age. There seems to be a total lack of morals and a sense of decorum. Some of these tweets were reprehensible. It would be nice if any have job offers that they are rescinded.</p>
<p>Absolute shame on them. How terrible. </p>
<p>And some of the misogynist comments appear to come from other females…something we can always count on. Nice. </p>
<p>Yikes…</p>
<p>these kids ought to be ashamed of themselves posting stuff like that! </p>
<p>Woooooooow. </p>
<p>Just…woooooooow. @-) </p>
<p><em>pours out a glass of champagne for my generation</em> </p>
<p>^^ Not to mention that most of them are completely identifiable from their Twitter posts. It’s obvious that they don’t care. There ought to be some kind of consequences for those postings but I’m not sure what they should be. I’m sure their parents would be mortified.</p>
<p>I don’t think there can be consequences. This isn’t a K-12 school, where there can be some limits on free speech. I’m not sure that colleges can do anything to students who verbally trash the school or faculty.</p>
<p>These are the same kind of comments kids would make among friends and dorm mates (verbally or by texting) without taking them seriously or even really meaning them. The problem is that some kids still don’t realize that an online presence is more significant and lasting. They don’t get that a tweet can be as real as a face-to-face conversation. As a parent, I’ve tried very hard to make sure that DD gets this, but I suppose all parents don’t. This stuff is still so new that the lessons aren’t as deeply ingrained in all of us as they should be. With luck, the passage of time will change that.</p>
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<p>Unless perspective employer googles one of them.</p>
<p>Somehow posted on wrong thread… whoops.</p>
<p>@lerkin
Very true. I was talking about the univ, but you’re right about future employers unless there’s a way to delete/clear those posts. Don’t know if changing the username would help.</p>
<p>Help me understand the expectation to close a university due to snow/cold. When I was in college, my university never shut down. I expected the same with my own kids. But many parents at the university my kids attend are very vocal about their desire to have the university close so that their child doesn’t get cold walking to class. My own kids acknowledge the cold, but just accept it as part of life. 
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<p>What are these kids going to do when they get jobs. My husband’s place of employment didn’t shut down and really only schools did. These kids need to grow up.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between “cold” and being so cold that it’s a health risk to walk between classes. </p>
<p>Btw, the whole there’s no such thing as snowdays in the real world is a bunch of hooey that needs to stop. Many, many, MANY offices were closed because of the cold/snow. Many companies won’t risk their employees. </p>
<p>Sounds like some entitled spoiled kids to me- do they know how much tuition each day of class is costing their parents? Most want to be considered “adults” since they are over 18; aren’t adults mature enough to dress warmly and get to class/work/appointments in inclement weather?</p>
<p>Being in classes all day is different from going to work. A person can arrive at work, often park relatively close-by, and not have to leave until end-of-day. Students often have to walk long distances to class from dorms or parking lots, they have to walk from building to building a few times per day, etc. </p>
<p>that said, their responses were immature and bully-like.</p>
<p>I think a work and college comparison is very valid. Not all companies have parking lots next to buildings, nor do all employees drive to work, yet somehow they get there. I remember a day last winter where I walked about 1/2 a mile over our snow covered roads so a co-worker could pick me up in her SUV as my car would not have made it. I dressed warmly. Once we got to work, we shoveled the walk ways. 
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<p>I hope none of those kids are planning on medical careers. Hospitals do not close in inclement weather. </p>
<p>True, lerkin. Fwiw, U of M was providing food & housing & transportation to and from the parking lots (for those that were risking it) to the medical staff when the weather hit so that they didn’t have to be on the roads. I don’t know too many companies or schools that would that though. </p>
<p>Do they not realize they can just not go? No police will come after them, no need for mom to write a note excusing them. They have a choice.</p>
<p>If it is too cold, maybe they should have picked a school in the south.</p>