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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with others.  Kids have no resilience.  They are helicoptered to perfection.  If they don’t get an A, the parents call their teacher (or the principal) and complain so now everyone gets an A.  In college, when in theory, they fall apart.  In weeder classes (which they are all in because their helicopter parents require them to
Major in CS, engineering or pre-meds types of majors) Cs are not uncommon and they freak out.

People are doing their kids no favors with the intense helicoptering.  Let them struggle or fail.  Let them figure it out!
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The number of freshman parents looking for computer science tutors on the Cornell parents Facebook page is shocking.
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Parent of a different ivy kid and a no -ivy t10: tutor request from parents and handwringing over grades is intense on both FB pages and has been for yrs per older parents. There is a large majority of rational parents  who say they got in , let them figure it out, land the chopper. It becomes very obvious especially in the compared-to -curve type econ or calc classes who got there on their own and is resilient and who was helicoptered with tutors and parents doing a lot for them. Some of them do not belong at that level of school. [/quote]

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