How can college students afford to do full time camp out style protesting? Don’t they have school work to do? Won’t professors just fail them for not going to class/doing the work (assuming they aren’t).
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Must university classes are very independent. The students are adults capable of taking responsibility for their own studies and are allowed to chose how they want to spend their time and so they learn things the best. So attendance is usually optional and there is just a few lectures a week. Study groups are organized by the students themselves. Not all subjects have classwork and those that do only have a couple each semester. There are of course exceptions and some subjects have stricter attendance policies and weekly mandatory work, most of these subjects are at collages but there are some in universities as well.
Adding to this most universities are into their exam period. Professors need time to grade all the exams before summer holidays so some exams are even starting now. And a lot of subjects have already gone through everything and is now refreshing for the exams. This is even more independent then the first months of the semester so students have lots of time to study on their own for the exams. It is also perfectly accepted that students stop studying for later exams and focus on their next exam so you would not force a student to attend a lecture or do mandatory work as they probably have an upcoming exam in another subject.
I am not saying students have no issues with protesting and studying for their exams at the same time. This is obviously an issue and they are probably going to get worse grades by protesting. But it is up to them how to spend their time and most of them do think that it is a case worth getting a lower grade for.
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