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It’s also an easy lazy media trope because High School is the last universal experience that we have as a society, though college is getting there.
Eh, college was getting more alienating and individualized before COVID. As academia continues along the “business model” students have become less involved on campus and with eachother. People know its a scam to get a scrap of paper so you can get a job with healthcare. If you can manage to do some actual learning in college that isn’t “Worker Training” good for you, but that experience has been fading. Even socializing on colleges has been commodified into “networking” for your eventual career.