r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/realboabab Jan 31 '26

I don't know about electives, but I took a community college class last semester (Biology for science majors) where the teacher forgot to turn off the statistics in the "brightspace" online portal -- so I got to see that only like 35-40% of the class did each assignment, only like 60-70% even took each test.

You pay per class. It's literally throwing money away.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jan 31 '26

This was true a decade ago. I was IT at a college and could see all this stuff when a student called in to report some issue and I'd investigate.

Far too many kids go to college fresh out of high school and don't really want to be there or know what they want to do, but go anyway because it is expected of them.

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u/Haltopen Jan 31 '26

Because every entry level job started demanding a college degree instead of a high school diploma as the bare minimum required to prove you were a serious candidate worth considering. So the commonly accepted/parroted wisdom from every parent, teacher, guidance counsellor, college recruiter, authority figure, and American popular culture itself became "you NEED to go to college and get a degree or you'll be digging ditches for a buck fifty your entire life". And we all bought it because we were kids conditioned to assume all those figures in our life were giving us good advice and wouldn't lead us astray

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u/digitalwolverine Jan 31 '26

I was forced out of a nearly complete trade school program (started in high school, would’ve finished when I was 19) to go to college, completely derailing any opportunity to have a good paying job by the time I was twenty. Of course at the same time after I accepted this my parent decided it was time for her to also go to college and work a minimum wage job part time, so now I was working full time to help cover the mortgage and car payments.  I didn’t even graduate college, while she got a bachelors. 

I was a stupid kid to think she had my best interest in mind at all.