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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I helped my kid this first semester because using the school's website to pick classes and avoid schedule conflicts, then looking at "rate My Professor" can be a little complicated.  You have to read between the lines of some course descriptions too.  Anyway, after this it will be the kid's job.  I don't see any problem with assisting them this first time out.[/quote]

She didn't assist him, she overrode his preferences and humiliated him in public by demanding a change to the schedule he'd set up with an academic advisor.  On top of the helicoptering, the arrogance of thinking she knows more about college scheduling than someone who does this for a living is pretty remarkable.  [/quote]

Exactly.  Parents are always taken to a separate room during the portion so they have no input.  Even then we sometimes have to "guide" them away.  As I said before in an earlier reply I made, parents equate paying for college as control of over what can be taken.  [/quote]

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