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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m a staff member at a university, so I’ve seen a lot of exceptional student behavior, and a lot of entitled/inept student behavior.

My question to you are: why are you, at this point, blaming the parents for the behavior you see in 18+ college students?

When I was in college, I occasionally skipped class, I definitely didn’t study hard enough, and I flubbed the start time of two finals. I once tried to engage the “help” of government and politics faculty members because of essentially a phishing scheme related to human rights violations. (It was the early days of the Internet, but…cringe!)

I had some growing up to do. On my own. That’s…rather the point of college.

My parents didn’t fail to tell me to go to every class, they didn’t fail to raise me to set alarm clocks, they didn’t fail to teach me how to use calendars and budget my time and check syllabi and read through instructions, etc. They didn’t fail to tell me not to drink too much, and to stay with friends and stay safe and not walk alone, etc., etc.

I didn’t follow every rule, guideline, and bit of advice they gave me. Did you?

I agree with you that parents should never be in contact with faculty/staff/administration/RAs unless there is some actual emergency. [b]But other than that, your finger-wagging at parents for their college students not being fully-formed, fully responsible adults is just…way off-base.[/b][/quote]
Who is expecting college students to be fully formed and fully responsible? [/quote]

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