are professors not required to check in on students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s hilarious.

Of course professors don’t check in on students.

It’s not hilarious. It’s sad and pathetic that universities are not held to some standard to check the welfare of students.

They are adults. It's not a boarding school. It's college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:are professors not required to check in on students if they skip class?

My DS stopped attending a class and not one email or phone call from the professor.

That's a life lesson. You have to let people know what you're going through. You have to have already formed those connections. Then they will care and check in on you. You hope.

[Anonymous]

Is your son a child? Is this professor his parent?

No?

It's clearly not their job to parent your child.

[Anonymous]

At LACs, professors do this sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:are professors not required to check in on students if they skip class?

My DS stopped attending a class and not one email or phone call from the professor.

If your idiot of a son stopped attending class for no reason other than being a loser, do you really think he would be honest with you and tell you that the professor reached out to him? You are trying to redirect blame but please direct it to the one that birthed and raised him to be the man that he is today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s hilarious.

Of course professors don’t check in on students.

It’s not hilarious. It’s sad and pathetic that universities are not held to some standard to check the welfare of students.

They are adults. It's not a boarding school. It's college.

My coworkers are adults but we check on them when they don’t show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your son a child? Is this professor his parent?

No?

It's clearly not their job to parent your child.

It’s the job of a community not parents to check on people in our community.

[Anonymous]

DD went to a SLAC and I think her professors would have reached out if she stopped going to class. I went to a large state university and can guarantee none of my professors would have given me a second thought.

[Anonymous]

No.

If it's a small LAC, and the behaviour is not typical, sometimes a professor will notify student services so they can check on the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:are professors not required to check in on students if they skip class?

My DS stopped attending a class and not one email or phone call from the professor.

If your idiot of a son stopped attending class for no reason other than being a loser, do you really think he would be honest with you and tell you that the professor reached out to him? You are trying to redirect blame but please direct it to the one that birthed and raised him to be the man that he is today.

So you think a professor did reach out.

You think the only explanation is someone is a loser? Really? Are you that ignorant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD went to a SLAC and I think her professors would have reached out if she stopped going to class. I went to a large state university and can guarantee none of my professors would have given me a second thought.

In my example where the boys dad died the younger son was at a SLAC, the older boy at 2nd tier state school.

So maybe not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:never heard of anyone checking on a student who wasn't in class...

If someone quits showing up to work, they will still call and ask

But it is very common for kids to skip class. DS has a class of 100, but said that only 25 actually show up.

If a student stops going to class for multiple classes someone should check on them.

Nobody is talking about 1 or 2 classes.

np.. a lot of college classes don't take attendance, especially the large ones. How would anyone know your kid skipped multiple classes?

DS has skipped most of his one math class (math major) and just studies stuff online (straight As). He tells me all of this.

If you are concerned that your adult child is not going to class, then maybe you need to have a conversation with the adult child.

If you are concerned about their safety, maybe you should have a system where he checks in with you every few days. If they are living in a situation where there is an RA, maybe call the RA to do a welfare check.

Or get life360 on their phone.

[Anonymous]

He stopped attending one class, and didn't dropped it because when you're getting Aid is better to have an F in a course than W, if GPA is in good standing, (above 3.0) will be graduating in May, took the course so he could be full time so the aid doesn't drop..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your son a child? Is this professor his parent?

No?

It's clearly not their job to parent your child.

It’s the job of a community not parents to check on people in our community.

er.. what now?

[Anonymous]

Guess the OP never went to college.