How does your college treat student parents?

College Life
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<p>Never really thought much about this before… but something that happened today in college just made me think.
There’s a girl in my class who’s 20 and the single mother of a 2 year old boy. She uses the campus daycare, which runs from 8.30am to 3.30pm. So naturally, she has to pick up the kid at 3.30. They’ll often allow parents another 30 minutes to finish out a lecture if it’s necessary. However one of our major-specific classes is from 4-5pm on a Thursday (ie. outside the hours of campus daycare). Because of the lack of childcare, she’s had to miss this class 6 weeks in a row. Today, she came to class with her son and pretty much begged for a babysitter so she could make the class. Luckily enough, someone did offer to miss the class and look after the little boy for an hour, but it’s just horrible that she would have to be put in that situation, especially for an important class.</p>

<p>So would this happen in your school? Just curious.</p>

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<p>She knows what time child care ends and she knows what time her class ends. Mom could and should make arrangements to have someone pick up her child so she won’t miss class </p>

<p>or </p>

<p>she should post a notice to hire a sitter for one after noon a week and pay them accordingly.</p>

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<p>there are many students who would babysit for her, she just needs to make that need known. i know people who wouldnt even ask to be paid for that</p>