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I have no problem with parents making sure that the college and professors are providing their child with a high-quality education, especially since they are paying for it, in many cases! You wouldn't say the same about a shareholder checking in on a business that they've invested in, would you?[/quote]

This is another problem, of a different sort: why do you think professors should spoon-feed your child 100%?

Professors, like your child's future employers and co-workers, are human, and some are great and others not so much. You child needs to learn the skills of getting what he needs (in this case, information) from various sources (in this case, textbooks, online). My kid, at one of that Shanghai ranking's top 10 universities (see the other thread), is sometimes in the position of compensating for a weak prof here or there. And IMO that's actually a very good thing.

Can I ask you professors, how often do you get calls from pushy parents? I know some parents are totally egregious. But is this <1% of parents or 10% of parents? Or, gasp, more?[/quote]

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