Student misses e-mail, loses college place
A student at San Jose State University is reportedly un-enrolled after not reading an e-mail the school sent him over the summer about a problem with his English placement test.
Colleges seems like frightfully commercial enterprises to me.
They enjoy pretending they're about education. But they do seem to charge absurd amounts of money in order to give the young and impressionable the often erroneous belief that they're worth something. For a price that can be $50,000 a year.
So I find myself curiously unsurprised to hear the story of Hanaroo Kim, a student who thought he was entering San Jose State University.
As CBS 5 in San Jose describes it, Kim turned up for freshman orientation, only to find it utterly disorientating. For he was told had had been un-enrolled from the school.
Had he been spending his summer rioting? Had he been part of a notorious glue-sniffing incident? Not at all. He had failed to read an e-mail. Yes, that's it. Nothing more.
You might feel a twitch of disbelief, but no one seems to dispute the facts.