A new generation of overinvolved parents are flooding campus orientations, meddling in registration and interfering with students' dealings with professors, administrators and roommates, school officials say.Hmm. We're looking forward to Yale Parents Weekend!
Soaring college tuitions play a role, too. Increasingly, "parents see the institution as a product, and they're consumers. They want to know their investment is being protected," Dr. Mullendore says.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Overinvolved Parents
Now that Danny is headed toward Randolph Macon Academy, I figured Keith might want to get a jump on being what the Wall Street Journal is calling a helicopter parent.
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There is a world of difference between college campus life and Dan at RMA but somehow the administration there seems to be tuned in to this very thing. The Parent handbook warns parents to encourage students to handle problems themselves throught their carefully crafted system which will teach them the value of solving your own problems. They don't know Kirsti to well yet obviously. Also no cell phones allowed.
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