parent/child dissent

Shrinkrap
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:06:18 +0000

"And given the fact that this entire website exists for the purpose of helping students through the college process, it’s odd to me that someone would be a hugely active CC commenter yet downplay how important college selection is to a student (justifiably or not). "

If by “someone would be a hugely active CC commenter” you mean me, I would say I see this differently. I would say college selection is an important reflection of all that has come before, and not as some “random”*, independant event in a families life.

I did not find myself here because I was looking for help through the college process. I found myself here because my husband said some people studied for the SAT, and took it twice. I thought that was crazy. I stayed here because it is fascinating to me, that not everybody sees though my eyes.

Maybe one problem is that I don’t see offering to pay a large amount of money, for ANY reason, as the same as " dictating where an offspring is going to spend four years of adult life". Maybe that’s because nobody offered to pay for me, nor anybody I know. I still think of it as an amazing gift. I THINK folks I know would have taken it, and run with it, but I can’t know for sure, since that just didn’t happen. Well, it DID happen for MY kids. Still trusting what I learned here.

*I usually hate the use of “random”, and wanted to say “spurious”, but random actually works better.