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[quote=Anonymous]Rising sophomore going back. I'd like to order her to stay home (her small college is making everything available both on campus and entirely online if students choose to stay home). But if we did, it would do irreparable damage to our relationship. She's not a freshman to whom it's all new - she established very strong friendships and ties with faculty during the time she was on campus. And the key factor is that the college is not some huge state school or large university, it's small and the campus is self-contained and it's in a low-covid area (though that can change in a matter of days, I fear). The plans in place are really good if the students follow them and there will be more pressure to follow them than on a sprawling campus with a huge student body. STILL I wish they'd go all online.

She is very good about staying in, and about masking if we even drive out to do curbside pickup somewhere, so I trust her when she has told me she is very serious about the college's strict masking policies that will be in place. They all live on campus, and she's been talking through how she will handle things like laundry, having a roommate, places to eat (cafeteria is closed except for grab and go food).She picked classes for the fall that she can easily do back here at home if they are sent home. She seems very ready to be cautious but the problem to me is other students. I just hope she and her friends will be willing to call out other people if they see students who are not masked. It is hard, on their campus, to fade into a crowd, so it will be fairly evident if a student is being a jerk and not following rules -- the dorms are the place it's all likely to come off the rails, as kids will not want to distance and mask indoors in places like dorm activity rooms....

Her mental health here at home has been good because she has a ton of contact and Zoom socializing with friends from college. That's good and bad in terms of, it means she is not lonely and cut off but it also means she is eager to see her friends. Freshmen just starting this fall won't have those roots so it's easier for some of them (not saying all of them) to forego being on campus yet. [/quote]

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