>"...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 ove

>"...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.