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To: Twink
He became a conservative DESPITE OR IN SPITE OF his looney parents. His college had nothing to do with it.
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This is a much more clear.

34 posted on 06/14/2009 9:49:22 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: wintertime

I’m so glad it’s clearer for you. So now do you understand that it’s not the responsibility of colleges to parent adult students? When 18 yr olds “go off to college” they should be treated as adults. I don’t hold colleges/universities responsible for their paying students behavior. Parents shouldn’t either. Unfortunately, some parents expect college admin to parent their kids. It’s so much easier than holding their kids responsible for their behavior or actually raising one’s kids to be adults.

One of the pet peeves I had in college was having to “watch” or “parent” other students (friends) who had no idea what it was like to be an adult and responsible for their behavior. I was the friend that made sure the drunk friend got home ok or didn’t get so drunk they did something they regretted then called it rape. Some of these “kids” were so sheltered or so used to having someone look out for them that they expected it to carry over in college. There were far too many times I had to forcibly take some drunk friend away from a potentially bad situation, and get verbal abuse and sometimes physical resistance, it was nuts. My attitude was come on, you’re 18, 19, 20, etc. years old and you need a freakin’ babysitter?

Far too many parents send their kids to college and expect the college to parent. Same with classes, imo. Comes a time when we have to let them go and trust what we taught at home will be realized. It’s not the Profs job to make sure our kids/their adult students are following what was taught at home. Same thing when it comes to any schooling, imo. Parents should be parenting their kids, and those kids will make their own choices some of which we won’t like.

It’s too easy to blame school/colleges.


46 posted on 06/16/2009 4:36:10 PM PDT by Twink
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