are professors not required to check in on students?

[Anonymous]

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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.

It would have taken weeks for my supervisor or coworkers to check on me, even though I always called or emailed if I was sick. Found out the hard way when apparently email went down, I was sick for a couple of days, and no one bothered to check, just assumed I skipped work without a reason for days, when I had never done that before in five years.

At large universities, no one will check.

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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.

I’ve never been concerned but mental health issues usually arise during college not before.

I think colleges phone it in and I don’t know why people tolerate it.

students are being hazed and raped, so no I didn’t really “expect to be concerned “.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At LACs, professors do this sometimes.

Professors will reach out to parents of adult children to say, "Your kid skipped class"? Wow, that's some handholding there.

Your peers/managers at work will get concerned if you don't show up to work without any explanation because you are paid to show up to work or you get fired.

If an adult doesn't show up to a class that they paid for, they don't get kicked out of school for it.

If you are concerned about your adult child at college you can call the college and ask them to do a welfare check.

If you are concern is that your adult child is just skipping class because they don't feel like going, that's your kid's issue, not the school's.

[Anonymous]

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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.

If a child was not attending many classes due to emotional issues, the parents should have been the first to know, shouldn't they?

[Anonymous]

Certain schools we toured absolutely talked about the importance of checking on students if they are missing classes.
These were mostly small liberal arts colleges. Our DC has had some mental health issues during and post-Covid and being in a place where someone is looking out was an important part in finding the right college.
This was not a message we heard from most larger schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

It would have taken weeks for my supervisor or coworkers to check on me, even though I always called or emailed if I was sick. Found out the hard way when apparently email went down, I was sick for a couple of days, and no one bothered to check, just assumed I skipped work without a reason for days, when I had never done that before in five years.

At large universities, no one will check.

Sounds like a terrible place to work.

You don’t work for week and nobody notices, that doesn’t say much for your productivity

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes, but a class isn't a community. OP's son stopped attending ONE class, not all classes. Maybe if he'd stopped attending all of them, someone from his community would have stepped up. A roommate, an RA, someone from a club or sport or faith group. But a legal adult not attending a specific class? I can't imagine putting that on the professor.

[Anonymous]

I had lectures with 300 kids in them that I almost never went to (I took them to fulfill distribution requirements). I would guess attendance was about 50% and the professor would have legitimately had to spend hours a week checking on students if this were the policy. (This was HYPS by the way, not some giant state school.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, that’s your job as a parent.

And how does a parent do that? Do you have cameras installed in your student's dorm room?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

I’ve never been concerned but mental health issues usually arise during college not before.

I think colleges phone it in and I don’t know why people tolerate it.

students are being hazed and raped, so no I didn’t really “expect to be concerned “.

That's still not the professors purview. They are there to teach; that's it. This is not K-12 where teachers are notifying parents of kid's behavior and if they are not in school (our public k12 sends out a robocall if a kid misses class).

If you have concerns about their physical welfare, call the school.

Otherwise, these are adults, and they are expected to act like it.

[Anonymous]

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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

Not true at all. After work, my coworkers and I went to a co-worker's house because he wasn't responding to calls or emails. We found him dead in his bed. The company simply used vacation time for his absence and would have done that for weeks. They probably would have terminated him once he ran out of vacation time. If we hadn't been close to him, no one would have known.

My office does welfare checks for even very small changes in behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that’s your job as a parent.

And how does a parent do that? Do you have cameras installed in your student's dorm room?

Your kid is an adult. Call your kid everyday if you have concerns.

[Anonymous]

This has got to be a troll post, right?

You think professors have time to go "checking" on students who didn't bother to go to class? No.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I’ve never been concerned but mental health issues usually arise during college not before.

I think colleges phone it in and I don’t know why people tolerate it.

students are being hazed and raped, so no I didn’t really “expect to be concerned “.

That's still not the professors purview. They are there to teach; that's it. This is not K-12 where teachers are notifying parents of kid's behavior and if they are not in school (our public k12 sends out a robocall if a kid misses class).

If you have concerns about their physical welfare, call the school.

Otherwise, these are adults, and they are expected to act like it.

At what point did the citizens and institutions in our country decide to opt out of being decent, compassionate humans, who care about those in their community?

Because your response is absolutely digustingly callous.

[Anonymous]

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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

Not true at all. After work, my coworkers and I went to a co-worker's house because he wasn't responding to calls or emails. We found him dead in his bed. The company simply used vacation time for his absence and would have done that for weeks. They probably would have terminated him once he ran out of vacation time. If we hadn't been close to him, no one would have known.

My office does welfare checks for even very small changes in behavior.

Yes, because they are paid to be in the office; they aren't paying to be there. Two different situations.