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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a hard first semester, no friends, lonely. It was a character-building experience. We can’t swoop in and solve all our kid’s problems. I know covid makes things totally different, but just be a listening ear for him and ask him how he could change things. Don’t call his RA. Please [/quote]

I agree with not calling the RA but your experience is not relevant to this situation.  There are no activities going on and all their classes are zoom.  They cant even eat in the caferteria and students are staying in the doom.

So dont talk about your experience because honestly you have no idea what kids are facing.[/quote]

Okay sure, it’s different. Forget I brought up my experience.  It sucks for them, big time. But come on, they’re not in the trenches of a war, watching their friends die on the battlefield. They’re not facing the gas chambers of the Holocaust or hiding in an attic for years like Anne Frank. They’re not living in a house with 3 other families sharing one bathroom because they can’t afford a bigger place for their family. If you swoop in and “rescue” these kids when life is uncomfortable and hard, they won’t be able to handle it themselves later. Life is hard. Life is unfair. Support them, help them if they’re in a mental health or physical crisis. But you can’t tell me that mom calling the RA after ONE week when life is different is going to help that kid grow as a person. [/quote]

But they are paying and often going into debt for the privilege of this crappy experience.  Parents and kids can consider whether it makes more sense in this case to save the R&B money and take the remote classes from home--lots of schools currently have penalty free releases from housing and meal contracts.  Save the money to do something more impactful--move to a new city for an internship one summer, study abroad--or just have 6k less in debt. [/quote]

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