Students losing thousands of dollars due to U of T meal plans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2022
- As the academic year comes to an end, University of Toronto students say they’re being forced to leave behind thousands of dollars in meal plan cash. Faiza Amin on the desperate steps students are taking to avoid losing too much money.
This calls for a class action lawsuit. They're forced to pay for the plan if they live on campus then forced to give up part of what they pay.
Universitys milk students these days to allow lavish lifestyles of those running it.....Just like a mini government milking its citizens,
*I worked for the food service doing UofT and we ONLY got our vegetables from the cheapest possible supplier USA and Mexico but the students are told it's all local produce and sustainable etc.* you students are being short changed in so many ways
Criminals?
@@roblin6659 probably as dishonest as you can be and still get away with it if your busted
This is an issue for almost every college and university but even I'm surprised how terrible the food was considering how much we spent on meal plans like when I lived on campus i spent almost 4k
Jesus Christ, I can feed my family of 3 for that for almost a full year
this is called monopoly, while being the highest ranked university in canada, they can charge whatever they want and there will still be people willing to pay for it
It's not a monopoly. There are other options and students are taking them. Hopefully more follow suit.
The contrast between Ontario students that are shy to claim what’s rightfully there money and compare that to the Quebec montreal student that when on strike for 3 weeks to ask for free tuition. Come Ontario we can do better!
Thats UofScam for ya. It is what it is. These universities are there to just make as much money off of as you possible. It is unfortunate, but at this point I have accepted it.
Stand up for academic fiscal rights, unity is powerful!
I am feeling so bad for all you students. This just isn't fair. You're already broke and struggling.....this is just unacceptable. I'm shocked. Wow. Just wow.
All the best to you students, you're our future you know, so I pray for each of you. I hope you all still perform well and achieve your dreams. You're appreciated, each and every one of you. Please know that! 💓
They are taking any pennies you have. This is how they get rich.
A law student needs to make this their first case.
Disgusting greed from a place of education.
In other parts of the world this would not be tolerated and students would peacefully protest and win.
We can’t allow greed to destroy our future, we need to stand up and fight for justice.
The meal plan is full of processed food that doesn’t help students learn.
UofT is a cash milking machine
I say that as a graduate myself
yea also the hardest school to get good gpa in the world
This is all true, and it's been true for a long time. I used to go to Victoria College at U of T (2010-2014). If you live in residence, you're required to buy a meal plan, and typically a student does have a lot of meals left over by the end of the school year. If this was simply due to students not using these meals, that's one thing, but there are more meals in the plan than any student could possibly use.
For me, this wasn't that huge of a deal. But when you think about it, there is at least a lot of debate and transparency needed. The university should at least be clear upfront where the money these students pay is going to, if this is indeed going towards fixing up dining halls, paying staff, etc. If they can't justify it, they should allow students to reclaim these unused meals.
Meals should be refundable if not used
Schools force students to pay things that they do not need.
The school should help Students out
What I put in my mouth is my business.
My school had this issue. Students would by their entire dorm floors meals to get rid of the money by the end of the year. Our school recently instituted a program where tou can donate your dining dollars. It isn't a perfect fix since you can't get a refund but now at least the money goes to students who are food insecure or can be used to stock community fridges especially for students studying over the summer.
I can understand if it's a fixed "all inclusive" cost but they're literally treating this as a cash balance.
This goes back to the days of the company store.
Boom! Here we are again eleven months later, no follow up and in the same situation. I Google'd about this issue and found this clip. All Criminals!
Student's can't even buy chips and soda and give it to the homeless. Shame U of T and @citynews for not getting this resolved like Peter Silverman (Silverman Helps😅 back in the day!) Did all in an afternoon with a few phone calls. Probably need to call Jojo Chinto back to investigate this crime too! 😅
My sister went to York University and ran into the same situation but during her last weeks we went with her and bought cases of chocolate bars, chips etc. just to use it up
Post secondary in general is just a scam. On top of that they charged people full tuition during covid for online classes where profs copy and pasted lecture material.
I was a student at University of Saskatchewan in 2020. I diligently ate at the dining hall at specific intervals to ensure I was on track to use up all of my mandatory meal plan by the end of the year. But then COVID hit and they closed down the dining hall and they refused to issue me a refund for my remaining meal balance.
That's terrible!
A ton of people on the subreddit are also annoyed by this.
Hopefully they fix this in the future.
Students living on campus are forced to buy the meal plans. Do you have any idea how much rent is in Toronto? Try living off-campus, and pay high rent in Toronto which will be far more than the cost of the meals they're paying.
We need to protest
This is happening at all universities not just uft
They are adults let them make their own food choices like off campus students that's ridiculous.
They are already broke they have to pay back student loans too let them buy their chips at the dollar store.
They should not loozse any meals from their plan and money should work properly actively
They scamming them hard
why do you have pay meal plans? why do they force you
To pay for services for teh students
So they can get rich off of students. Aka, customers.
This is called capitalism and corporates. They take your money no matter if you are using it or not.
All universities are like this and it's ridiculous, rules need to change. Ryerson has the same policies as UofT.
*Toronto Metropolitan University
Universities are businesses?
whoda thunk it
donate food to shelters or food bank
That's why I stayed home for college. Saved alot of money. Plus would never spend 10s or 100s of thousands to not even garentee you a good paying job. Just think of all the competition in high ranking fields. You either are the top of you class or most likely not getting anywhere. You dedicate so much time away from friends and family and lose out on many memories studying for possibly nothing. I have a friend who has no street smarts only book smart and very little social skills.
Not to mention food quality is garbage despite paying a premium, contracts seem to be given to the lowest quote resulting in cafs full of processed, garbage food… (new college alum for context)
how does living on campus compare to renting a room in the neighborhood. also i wonder how well these meal plans work for those with dietary restrictions like halal or kosher meat. im sure dietary restrictions alone should be an option to back out of plan.
Very Excite
'Education in reverse'
Ask for all your left over money in frozen beef to go.
UofT could be a perfect villain in Charles Dickens' novel.
I hate forced meal plans. I would pay way less and eat way healthier if I was allowed to buy my own food. Also who spends 5200 for food?
Every university does this.
Not every university. My uni doesn't have meal plans.
Meal plan in general is money gouging...I for one was price gouged twice simply cause meal plans were non refundable
And this isn't just a U of T issue
I don't think it's inherently devious to force an expensive meal plan on students in exchange with letting them stay in residence. But, knowing that this is TORONTO is absolutely heartwrenching. What sick mind would deprive these kids from the amazing food in Toronto?
It's not really "in exchange with letting them stay in residence" since they pay for living in residence too.
@@dianaadamo5574 Huh, you're right. I think I meant to focus on the students' choices and not exactly the exchange: they have to pay rent either way but a critical difference between residence and off-campus is the forced meal plan. I think that's not bad in general, especially when the food options in the city aren't anything special (which is not the case at all with Toronto).
Universities do that all over.
the reason why I don't sign up for residence is that the college this year in my area has mandatory meal plans
I'd rather stay at home and eat my mom's cooking. I save money and my stomach hehehe
I'm not surprised some students are loading up on chips and pop, just to get their money's worth. You know the $1000 dollars textbooks they just finished using is now worthless. You'd be lucky to get $100 bucks for them.
Post-secondary education is very expensive. It's a learning experience in financial education and budgeting these young intellectuals will adapt to. I know this won't ease the pain, but this will be the cheapest cost when you factor in the future money you will eventually make with your degrees.
What? So it’s okay that they get ripped off now in something really unrelated to their education, because in theory, the education they are paying for will earn them a decent wage (along with hard work and more sacrifice). Great logic.
@@AR-td3tu If you're too cheap & poor to go to university, why not try college instead.
@@dvsxavier I’m 43 and it would be weird for me to go to a college given that I finished both my undergrad and post-grad many years ago (not that there’s anything wrong with people who go to college, only people who look down on those who do). It’s been my experience that it’s those without money that make the types of remarks you make out of insecurity of where you’ve landed up in life. Finally, as both your original comment and reply to mine make no sense, you’re clearly dim in addition to being an a$shole (I substituted a dollar signs for the first ‘s’ since you’re so occupied with money, and I’m explaining it to you because you’re…well. You). Love the Archer thumbnail, you’re so cool and original.
organized loot going on govt should step in
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Does this not show that the educational systems in Canada are not working . Schools shouldn't be making money off of the kids going there. Parents are also being left out of the opportunity of having a voice as t what their kids should be learning. I'm sure that every parent would like to see their child graduate and become a doctor. That means what they went through was worth the time and money it took to finish school. I believe every coarse should lead to employment but what I hear about university it's the staff and the administration who are raking it in. I believe that the kids are being taught what to think and not how to think. There's more propoganda being taught them wisdom and I don't see the kids growing up attending these schools of higher education.
Do Canadians actually have a cuisine?
This is what happens when people prioritize commercializing education over actually educating. Milking poor college students.. disgusting.
The kids look like they still belong in JK. When I went to UofT at 19 we all looked like adults
Welcome to Canada😀
its not just uoft thats doing this too!
No refunds
Six meals a day!
schooling on how to rip people off. is it a school or a restaurant
what a nice racket
A lot of schools in the US are the same but when you become a sophomore you are not required to buy the most expensive plan which gives you like 19 meals a week. They should accept student dining bucks at other food reestablishments including coffee shop and etc that way students are more likely to use up their money on their meal plan.
lucky I rent a house outside
A Canadian College draining students of their money? *shocks Pikachu's face*
U of T is not a college.
I like the "people" who are complaining. I'm an immigrant who studied here and i would've complained about this a long time ago, yet i don't want to viewed as the foreigner who feels like they know more than what the standards here are. There are more things in this society that can be addressed. I'll wait for you guys to speak about it.
Like how Canada takes all of an immigrants money, and then the immigrants end up going back to the country they came from?
@@rboddington I don't know if the original immigrants (including Simon Fraser) who came to build this country came here just to build and then go back to Europe and Asia and where ever they came from. Until i know that, i can't complain about immigrants paying four times the fees and then being expected to go back.
disgusting fck ufot i'd never put up with that that's brutal, who wants to eat whatever they're feeding them, i'd want to eat my own food, do they need to have a meal plan no matter what
Poor rich ppl.
You do realize that many people have parents who work their arses off to send their kids to school right ? And many students have extra jobs to make money ??
That’s why you don’t live on campus
Every school does this. And how is this news worthy. Bottom of the barrel reporting
What were they fed before entered University? All these students look like just graduated from high-school. I thought students grew up a little in looks and muscle mass once they entered University.
Scams. Uni is there to make money now that’s it.
What's next blame college and university because they can't get a job in the field they went to school for 🙄
Trudeau did the worst comes possible
I am SO glad to have graduated from U of T a few months before the red plague hit Canada
cashgrad exploitation
Well just vote liberal or else!!!!!!
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So these students are going to university and they couldn't figure out that out. DON'T GO. who need more educated " silently quitting culture"
Who cares. As long as students are taught to memorize and enforce all gender pronounce i can let this slide.
Too bad for them they want to have a fancy title that's the price you pay happy capitalism.
Are these not the ones that are voting for trudeau and the ndp. If so it looks good on you.
U of T existed well before Trudeau became Prime Minister. Besides, are you saying that if we had a conservative PM that these students WOULD have been able to get their unused meal card balance refunded to them?
@@liztewliztew I am saying since trudeau got in it is getting impossible to survive. The way he prints and gives money away to other countries you will be paying ten dollars for a loaf of bread soon. And that's if you will be able to find one.
@@liztewliztew They are in fact the ones voting for prime minister dress up.
no one voted for trudope. this is a dictatorship
@@gilbertdickenitis4163 You’re assuming that these university students were old enough to vote for him, right?
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Crying over meal plan yet i see them on this video drinking 8$ bubble tea and Starbucks.
Why should it matter what they are drinking? Are you saying that if they can afford to by an $8 drink from Starbucks then they can also afford to leave $1,000, or more, on their meal cards which the university often ends up keeping?
Treating myself to a drink once a week doesn’t mean I have 2k to spare for inedible food