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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not on Facebook so I didn’t for my DC who is sophomore. TBH, I don’t need that unnecessary drama. 
But we did join the email distribution for parents and that’s been helpful to hear what’s going on at the school[/quote]

What drama?

Are there shuttles from the airport? Is dramatic for you?[/quote]

oh there definately can be drama.  here's a few entertaining examples:

4 or 5 years ago, the parent complaining that the cafeteria their kids eats breakfast at has been out of bacon for the last 2-4 days.  Who should the parent complain to?   
Let's just say it's still referred to as "bacon gate" at least 3-4 times a year when people start complaining about ridiculous things.

Parents who are currently complaining about "when will we have the exact date for graduation ceremony  It just says a certain Sat or Sunday in May".  Well there's a reason for that---they use the same stadium in town as the NBA team, and that's playoff season and the NBA team gets preference over the university---so gotta wait for playoff schedules to come out.  Yet many many parents are complaining, several also saying "their kids were 2020 HS grads and missed out on so much that year, it's not fair to be missing out as a senior in college".  It's like: just book your flights so you can be there the entire weekend.  There is nothing the university can do---considering for 2022 graduation they held it at an OUTDOOR venue, it was 36 degrees that morning with a windchill below 30 and the ceremony lasted over 4 hours, and they started 45 mins late because they waited for people who drove to ceremony and parking was backed up. (yes I had a 22 grad and we froze our asses off, so I'd have gladly had it inside in a nice warm, almost new NBA stadium thank you).

But I think the best was a parent arguing for 3-4 days (until the thread was shut down) that it is NOT fair that some dorms are nicer than others (there is one 2-3 yo dorm on campus at that time, most others are 40-60+ years old, only about 25% have AC, the new one does.  This parent seriously wanted the university to spend millions to retrofit all the old dorms with AC---hint the school is in an area where there are typically only 2-3 weeks in fall that are warm (yes it can be warm and humid) and maybe 1 week in spring...but see above graduate was freezing one year, and one year I picked my kid up and it was 45 and rainy that week and it really had not been warm yet that spring.  The parent seriously thought it would be a great use of university monies to do this---not to mention that it's so cost prohibitive simply because no building that old has the wiring in place to support window AC units in 100+ windows.

So yeah there is some drama, but mostly it's entertaining and in reality most parents are really helpful and kind.  Both kid's schools have 20%+ First Gen and one has 25% Foreign students, so there are alot of parents who need help navigating the process[/quote]

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