I am not as sympathetic to this student as he and his article wants readers to be.
I’d like perspectives of students from the very low income, crime ridden neighborhoods with challenging home lives to write their perspectives. They don’t have schools like Amherst to cater.
It’s a big problem when the family is not only unable. to help but poach upon their own kids. It’s also not the college’s job to subsidize that even though it jeopardizes the students’ education.
I’m trying to work out a situation where a kid would be optimally away from home due to challenging, problematic, family and home environment, not one bit conducive, even threatening to educational accomplishment. No money to pay for Away School. I don’t see the kid lasting a semester as a full time commuter.
It would be such a gift for him to have opportunity to go away to school. But, then, we’d have to
Face the luxurious challenges of that. And , no younger in cheek, challenges, indeed they will be But it would be many steps up from staying at home, being on scene for problems and blow ups as well as the home temptations, that would compete with commuting to school and doing the schoolwork.