Jane's Posts

Aug 1 1998

[snip horror story of completely irresponsible 19-year-old college student]

...The students in my classes who work the hardest and do the best are generally the older students with families and full-time jobs. They're in class *every* day, they don't show up with hang-overs, they have their homework done, their questions ready, and they trust me to know what I'm doing in teaching them. The younger students often cut class, show up high or drunk or hung-over, *never* do reading or homework (until the night before the exam, and then they're outraged that I don't come into the study center until midnight to work with them), and challenge my teaching and selection of curricular materials at every turn.
Vicki

Vicki's post made me think. Maybe you should not be subsidizing SD's college at all right now. For some young people, college is just high school without the parents. By the time they realize that they are wasting their opportunity for an education, they have a 2.0 GPA.

Maybe I just came from an unusually immature set, but a lot of us acted as SD did at her age. Virtually all of us dropped out sometime in the second or third year and went back to school later in life. College was an entirely different experience when we chose to go there because we wanted an education.

jane