College parent FB pages 10% useful 90% Cray Cray

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Anonymous wrote:Ours go so bad when the parents wanted to form smaller groups based on the Greek house the kid go into or for each apartment complex.

Today it has been which school supplies to get and I got shouted down the two suggestions I said which is read your damn syllabus and go to class.

The window measurements to get the right length black out curtains has been answered again and again as an example.

At his school, there is not enough housing for upper classmen to live in campus and most want to be out of the dorm and not under the RA’s watch.

These parents would also freak if they knew how many of their snowflakes had fake IDs.

Heh. My dd was on the club soccer team for her U last year. I seriously got invited to an "X University Club Soccer Parents" group on Facebook. Silly.

Do they have a calendar where you can sign up as weekly Snack parent?!?

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Anonymous wrote:The annoying part about the parent page I’m on is how so many have not read any of the material from the school and just come to the FB page asking what is already available to them. The kids are beginning to get firm by saying look at the resource (it’s called different things at different schools obviously). Or parents who just now are trying to figure out how to get their student to/from the school because it’s not near a major transportation hub and are SHOCKED that this is handled by the school.

This x100. DC’s school is great about providing info on line and via webinars and sending reminders to students and parents about deadlines, etc. and easily half or more of the questions are about things that have been conveyed multiple times in several different ways. It does make me feel better about how my DC is handing things. I was worried that he wasn’t sufficiently on top of everything he needs to do, but then I saw all the parents of kids who, for example, haven’t even tried to sign into their student email account yet.

Agreed this the parent page right for DS’ most of the time. And now that this week and next is dorm room picking time parents are freaking out over that as if their kid will have to sleep in the parking lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh -- our kid's parent FB page had a question from the parent of a first-year about whether to buy the college health insurance. Several folks responded (answer was "no", BTW). Seems like a pretty reasonable question and helpful answers. I mean, nobody's forcing you to look at it.

Plenty of the questions are reasonable, that's why I joined and stay on my kid's FB parents pages. But at least 40-60% are hilarious and helicopter parents. The above is an example of such. Or parents complaining that their kid's dorm doesn't have AC when only 30% of the dorms have AC and it's not needed past the first 2-3 weeks of the year and normally not needed in May (picked my kid up in May and it was 50-60 degrees most years). It's almost as if they did no research at all on the university housing.

"How can my daughter get a single room with a private bathroom as a freshman?"

I don't understand where these people went to college that they think some things are possible.

A single with its own bathroom is beneficial to students who have certain conditions (such as Crohn's disease).

[Anonymous]

The parent FB page for my son's school has been super-helpful in terms of providing photos of each dorm. (Some dorms don't have drawers, so it's good know know what to bring with you in terms of storage). The Admins or other parents are pretty good about pointing parents to specific areas on the school website for information. They have also helped technically-clueless parents navigate the website (which is not always intuitive, at least at this school).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meh -- our kid's parent FB page had a question from the parent of a first-year about whether to buy the college health insurance. Several folks responded (answer was "no", BTW). Seems like a pretty reasonable question and helpful answers. I mean, nobody's forcing you to look at it.

Plenty of the questions are reasonable, that's why I joined and stay on my kid's FB parents pages. But at least 40-60% are hilarious and helicopter parents. The above is an example of such. Or parents complaining that their kid's dorm doesn't have AC when only 30% of the dorms have AC and it's not needed past the first 2-3 weeks of the year and normally not needed in May (picked my kid up in May and it was 50-60 degrees most years). It's almost as if they did no research at all on the university housing.

"How can my daughter get a single room with a private bathroom as a freshman?"

I don't understand where these people went to college that they think some things are possible.

A single with its own bathroom is beneficial to students who have certain conditions (such as Crohn's disease).

Obviously! And most schools save those rooms for students with medical conditions. This post is about how ridiculous parents are that go into the process expecting their snowflake to get this. Single room with private bathroom is NOT common accommodations for freshman at majority of universities. Most kids end up in doubles/triples with communal bathrooms. It's just how college works. Yet many parents seem unaware of that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parent FB page for my son's school has been super-helpful in terms of providing photos of each dorm. (Some dorms don't have drawers, so it's good know know what to bring with you in terms of storage). The Admins or other parents are pretty good about pointing parents to specific areas on the school website for information. They have also helped technically-clueless parents navigate the website (which is not always intuitive, at least at this school).

I joined Parent FB pages at ~8 schools my kid was seriously considering during junior year/senior year It was a great learning experience. Lots of crazy stuff, but at least 60% of info is useful and helped me be informed about issues at each school (from silly stuff to major mental health issues, to severe overcrowding and it's impacts on everything, etc)

Its made me incredibly grateful my kid's final choice does not make freshman select their dorm rooms Hunger Games style. The other top 2 choices do that---seriously they make freshman find their roommates, go online at a specific time (one via lottery time, the other just at 2pm every Monday for 4-5 weeks until you find a place you like). Watching that unfold is painful and makes me happy my kid was just assigned a dorm room and a roommate---much less stressful for freshman with lots of changes happening in their lives.

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Adults that use the term Cray Cray might have some issues of their own.