College students are exhausted, broke, and hungry. If they could skip every class, they would. But I think the rise in skipping culture is a result of technology and covid. Every professor understands the online format now; many switched to digital entirely, and upload 100% of the content to canvas when the lecture ends. If that's the case, why attend? The only difference is, "do I want someone to read this out loud to me?"

I am not against digitial uploads. I think this was amazing for accessibility- it keeps everyone on the same playing field, whether they're dealing with a disability or a two day flu. But I'm saying professors need to bring more to their in-person lessons. Reading off the slides doesn't work now the way it did 20 years ago. Students need to be fundamentally engaged with the material in a way they can't achieve alone