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> I've never understood why students would even want the college to be so involved in their student life. If I understand the American system, there is pressur
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
> I've never understood why students would even want the college to be so involved in their student life.
If I understand the American system, there is pressure from parents as well. The students might not want the college to be so involved in their student life, but many parents would be unwilling to allow their children to attend an institution that is not highly focused on keeping them safe, to the point of treating adults as children. Rules requiring you to live on campus for the first 1–2 years, college-organized sober social activities, mental-health personnel on university staff, etc. is all meant to say “See, parents, your kid is safe with us.”
- kazen44 7y agowhich is just weird because well, at around the age of 18, most people should be able to handle themselves and they are not children anymore.
- Loughla 7y agoShould and can are two different things in the real world. We can idealize what people should do, or we can work with what they can do. Not both.
- bambataa 7y agoAny normal 18 year old should be able to look after feeding themselves. Yes, they might eat crap for a while but that is part of the process.
- ex_amazon_sde 7y ago> highly focused on keeping them safe This is not the point of the parent post. Extravagant expenditures on dining halls do little for safety. Competitive sports are a net negative for safety. A large number of european (as well as japanese) cities are very safe. Also, university students are adults.
- Mediterraneo10 7y ago> Extravagant expenditures on dining halls do little for safety. Parents are worried that their children might struggle to nourish themselves without the college or university seeing to their meals. Once all institutions have come to offer some form of meals on campus, individual institutions can then stand out from the crowd and attract students’ interest and parents’ approval by boasting more elaborating dining halls than other places. > A large number of european (as well as japanese) cities are very safe. Of course. But the issue here is that fretful American parents assume that anywhere their little darlings go off to will be unsafe, and their children shouldn't be left all on their own.
- bambataa 7y agoDoes this have anything to do with 21 being a significant age? I understood that from 18 in the U.S. you were legally an adult but there seemed to be a bit of a blurry period up to 21. That seems less of a thing in the UK.
- eli_gottlieb 7y ago21 is the legal age to drink alcohol in the United States. Yes, really. The management of 18-21 year olds as if they were children is primarily to keep them from having a beer or two.
- anticensor 7y ago> mental-health personnel on university staff This has also to do with worker safety. University clinics also act as worker clinics for their own workers.