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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh -- our kid's parent FB page had a question from the parent of a first-year about whether to buy the college health insurance.  Several folks responded (answer was "no", BTW).  Seems like a pretty reasonable question and helpful answers.  I mean, nobody's forcing you to look at it.  [/quote]

Plenty of the questions are reasonable, that's why I joined and stay on my kid's FB parents pages.  But at least 40-60% are hilarious and helicopter parents.  The above is an example of such.  Or parents complaining that their kid's dorm doesn't have AC when only 30% of the dorms have AC and it's not needed past the first 2-3 weeks of the year and normally not needed in May (picked my kid up in May and it was 50-60 degrees most years). [b]It's almost as if they did no research at all on the university housing.[/b]  [/quote]

"How can my daughter get a single room with a private bathroom as a freshman?"

I don't understand where these people went to college that they think some things are possible. [/quote]

Yup!  Or the parents that are shocked I tell you that their kid has to live on campus Sophomore year.  Really, it's quite clear on the university website and talked about in all campus visits that there is a 2 year residency requirement at both of my kid's colleges.  They talk it up as it "improves college outcomes" by having kids live on campus, so you would have to be fairly clueless to have not learned this before becoming a student. 
  Yet every single year, there are many complaints about it, some that have even signed off campus leases before finding this out.  And these are definitely not "parents without internet access or those whom English is a 2nd language or first generational parents" these are parents that should easily be able to know this and spend a lot of their day on FB, so could easily spend it on the university website finding this info.

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