Over Involved Parents
Over the past few years the act of “helicopter” parenting has become a nationwide issue for colleges. Schools have started programs or hired full time staff members just to field parents’ emails or calls. Others hold orientations just to inform the parents and keep them away from the students’ sessions. At some of the parent student orientations, more parents will show up than the students. Some schools sometimes have “student bouncers” to keep the parents trying to attend registration diverted so they can be told that their “not invited” to these events. Most parents don’t know the difference of when their needed and when they need to push the kid “out of the nest”. Administrators prefer the students to pick their majors and courses. Most parents assume that their children don’t know the basic safety rules and that they don’t know that they need their textbooks. This just shows that the helicopter parents don’t trust their children enough to let them “do their own thing”.
Schools are doing this so that the students may study and learn without their parents interfering with them. The schools wish to give the students the best possible education for them and the parents are disrupting the process by being over involved. Sometimes a parent will show up with no student to sign them up for registration, this has started coming up more and more.
I think the schools are correct for doing this because if they let the parents do their helicopter ways then the students wont be able to learn on their own, which college is a learning experience. The schools should be able to do what they want to help the students. I also think the schools should be allowed to make the parents stop with no questions asked. Yes the students will benefit this.
My parents will help me as much as they can but not to the point that im telling them to go away.
I think this article is opinionated and true.
