What teachers really want to tell parents.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Just interested

and even challenging their admission to the graduate programs.

Just my 2cents

I've HEARD of heli-parenting extending beyond undergrad, but I thought this was just myth? This really happens?

Like, there is a such thing as a law school/med school heli-mom?

I really don't know what I'd do if a grad school classmate told me "Yeah Dr. Whatever wasn't going to let me into that section of Special Ed Research, but my mom called and she got him to let me in."

[GammaPhi88]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I've HEARD of heli-parenting extending beyond undergrad, but I thought this was just myth? This really happens?

Like, there is a such thing as a law school/med school heli-mom?

I really don't know what I'd do if a grad school classmate told me "Yeah Dr. Whatever wasn't going to let me into that section of Special Ed Research, but my mom called and she got him to let me in."

Oh, there is. I haven't witnessed them personally at my own law school, as most people I've met are wonderful and self-reliant adults, but I've heard stories from the admissions people. Apparently, they get all sorts of nasty e-mails from parents when they reject a student, and to them, this is reinforcement that they made the correct choice. Who wants a lawyer who's mom will call and yell at you when you sue them for malpractice? I'd be mortified if my parents called the law school or one of my professors about anything...I'm 23 next week and capable of that myself!

[katydidKD]

Originally Posted by GammaPhi88

Oh, there is. I haven't witnessed them personally at my own law school, as most people I've met are wonderful and self-reliant adults, but I've heard stories from the admissions people. Apparently, they get all sorts of nasty e-mails from parents when they reject a student, and to them, this is reinforcement that they made the correct choice. Who wants a lawyer who's mom will call and yell at you when you sue them for malpractice? I'd be mortified if my parents called the law school or one of my professors about anything...I'm 23 next week and capable of that myself!

i'm in law school too! appalling...