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[quote=Anonymous]Another professor here and I hear you.

We have early alert processes but I don't find that strangers reaching out to students has any success in getting them to respond.

I share you experiments in futility but I continue to reach out. Stuff like "Hi Student, I've noticed you haven't come to the pats 5 classes. Are you ok? Do you need my help to get back on track?" has a decent track record of pulling some back if I follow through. But there are many who are just...disengaged. Those aren't gonna come back around, and I think at at certain point it's damaging to keep contacting them, so I let admin know and stop after a while.

There are a lot of reasons kids these days are more anxious and affected by poor mental health. High up on that list is that we're pushing more kids to the college path that perhaps are not equipped. No judgement there, but it obviously results in seeing more issues show up in college. I think its also more acceptable to talk about mental health, so we hear more about this instead of students just completely ghosting.

I do feel for them. [/quote]

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