The ethics of using a student id when you're no longer a student.

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

A student ID can be useful for discounts and free basic admission to museums. Would you continue to use it, if you could, even after you graduated? Or do you see that as wrong?

 

[Ingrid in grids]

My student ID is valid 'til 2021, even though I graduated. I plan on using it to the fullest. No shame.

 

[á´…eparted]

Nope. Feels too exploitive. Can't bring myself to do it.

 

[chickpea]

i was gifted a student ID of someone who looked vaguely like me and enjoyed my free bus fare for a year. and have definitely used mine to get discounts when i wasn’t in school.

that’s why i’m neutral and not good

 

[Lark]

My student ID is valid 'til 2021, even though I graduated. I plan on using it to the fullest. No shame.

Its been a while since I was a student, about eleven or twelve years, this is the longest I've gone without being at university, but I did that and there was nothing wrong with it. Students are generally pretty impoverished.

 

[kyuuei]

I suppose this is one of those doesnt-quite-hurt-people crimes people do. I grew up poor AF. If I wanted to do things or see them, I used any and every discount I possibly could.

Have before, would again.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

Its been a while since I was a student, about eleven or twelve years, this is the longest I've gone without being at university, but I did that and there was nothing wrong with it. Students are generally pretty impoverished.

I forget to use it a lot of the time, even when I was studying. I still have the reflex to say "yes" when asked if I'm a student, though.

 

[Lark]

I forget to use it a lot of the time, even when I was studying. I still have the reflex to say "yes" when asked if I'm a student, though.

In some ways I think you could answer yes to that question all your days and that would be true but they probably mean if you're enrolled some place rather than if you're still learning.

 

[Merced]

College is too expensive for me to moralize over discounts.

 

[Red Herring]

I would consider it unethical.

The discounts are meant to help out those in need and are usually indirectly financed by the taxpayer and/or those paying full price.

For context: In my country universities are tuition-free. So it's not like you paid a fortune to earn the status of "student" and no have to "get the most out of it". Museums etc that offer a discount to students usually also offer it to the unemployed, the disabled and the retired. So if you are fresh out of uni and still looking for your first job, you might still get some of those discounts anyway.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

I don't think it's too bad. I would probably do it if desperate enough. Tbh though rn I'm too afraid to ask if they have a student discount unless it's obvious because I don't want to be rejected lol.

 

[Wunjo]

Using my student id to acquire discounts and benefits after I graduate? Absolutely not.

 

[Forever]

I wouldn't care either way.

 

[gromit]

I used it after I graduated, when I was studying for my board exam, and prior to my first job.

 

[Coriolis]

A student ID can be useful for discounts and free basic admission to museums. Would you continue to use it, if you could, even after you graduated? Or do you see that as wrong?

Depends on what I was using it to do. If to sneak into one of the dorms to steal something or harass someone, then no. If to sneak into the library to look at a book that isn't in the public library, or get a discount as in your example, then yes - I don't consider that wrong.

 

[Tilt]

Yes. And every once in awhile, I get offered the youth discount for 12 and under...

 

[Stigmata]

Whether or not you're currently a student seems too much like semantics for me to actually care ethically about using an ID card for my own personal gain. If I could get away with it, I'd do it everytime and never think twice about it.

 

[Virtual ghost]

I would consider it unethical.

The discounts are meant to help out those in need and are usually indirectly financed by the taxpayer and/or those paying full price.

For context: In my country universities are tuition-free. So it's not like you paid a fortune to earn the status of "student" and no have to "get the most out of it". Museums etc that offer a discount to students usually also offer it to the unemployed, the disabled and the retired. So if you are fresh out of uni and still looking for your first job, you might still get some of those discounts anyway.

This.
I think that here they cancel your card right after you are finished with education.

 

[Tilt]

This.
I think that here they cancel your card right after you are finished with education.

In my experience, the account is usually kept open at least 1-2 years afterwards for alumni status in America. And here, it can cost anywhere between $10K-$60K+ a year for university.

 

[Virtual ghost]

In my experience, the account is usually kept openat least 1-2 years for alumni status in America. And here, it can cost anywhere between $10K-$60K+ a year for university.

Well, for that amount of money I would perhaps abuse it as well. Since university simply isn't worth that kind of money in my book.