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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm on two parent FB pages.  One is a high academic state school and the other is a small, Catholic school.  The only complaints I've read on the Catholic school page are parents complaining about the food in the dining halls.  Otherwise, everything is super positive and helpful.   It's a smaller school and the group is not very big so maybe that's why it's a great resource.

The state school FB page is so entertaining - arguments about politics (reminds me of DCUM), questions easily answered by using google and helicoptering.  During Covid it got really toxic - the school had really stringent restrictions (for example, no one could be in a dorm room except the residents of the dorm room - you couldn't even have your next door dormmate in your room.)  There were parents who were calling out other students for breaking Covid restrictions.  I guess their kid was telling their parent about classmates who were breaking the rules, and the parents would post the infractions to "encourage" everyone to follow the rules.

My favorite helicoptering post was when a parent wanted to know how to change the practice schedule for her son's CLUB baseball team.  She was unhappy with what time and how long the team was practicing.  My DS is on a club team but I have no idea when and how long he practices - the only time I hear about a competition is when he lets me know.[/quote]

We had several parents post complaining about how frustrated their kids were about one club sport. Many kids were interested in it but no one was returning calls, kids showed up for sport but were ignored or were treated rudely. Most kids had already paid a fee to participate. After a few weeks of stories about kids wanting their money back, the mom of one of the team of students who ran the scheduling(a paid position)  for the sport showed up and dressed down everyone for complaining. The group was for her child and her child's friends and they were the priority. It was a college club sport not a private group. The mom was both scary and funny. [/quote]

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