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When I send my own children to college, it will be exclusively through extension courses. No frills. A long time professor at Harvard did the same thing for his

• Loughla 4y ago
  >"...is my child safe..." Perhaps the issue is that the people who go to college these days are still... children? I have a half an hour soapbox rant about over-protective, bulldozer parenting and what I have seen it do to our kids if you have time. I work in administration now for retention services, but I've done a little of everything over the years from maintenance and janitorial to executive leadership to professor. My favorite story - I taught an educational law course; this was a 600 level graduate course for future principals and superintendents. It was a weekend course that met 4 weekends, for 8 hours both days each weekend. On the second weekend, one of the students came to class Sunday morning hammered. Not hung-over, I get that. But hammered drunk. Slurring, falling down drunk. So, I sent this full-grown adult home and gave him a zero on what we were doing. Monday morning, this man's mother called me to complain that I treated her son wrong. He was 15 years older than I was. He was a leader in his k-12 school. He was training to become a literal district superintendent. And his f**ing mom called me. Like, the 18 year olds I at least understand. The parents are used to stepping in at that point (even thought that's a whole other issue). But this man was a full-grown ass professional adult. And his elderly mom called to try to tell me I was wrong for sending him home when he came drunk to my class. This is the world we live in.
  • thehappypm 4y ago
    While this is a really interesting story, I really don’t see how we can draw any big conclusions from it.
    • Agamus 4y ago
      We might conclude that because this kind of thing probably never happened, say, 50 years ago, that, things have changed. Methinks Heraclitus is grinning in our general direction.