tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604990465653925540.post628344232467756767..comments2023-04-03T09:34:37.841-04:00Comments on Romantoes: Helicopter attack, part 2Rosemaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10223441754197927551noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604990465653925540.post-45610744288907575132012-01-10T21:09:59.026-05:002012-01-10T21:09:59.026-05:00Sorta good news, I suppose. I said I was going to...Sorta good news, I suppose. I said I was going to cry because one of my husband's colleagues was doing research on education, and totally as a sideline discovered that education majors are among the lowest GPAs, SAT scores, GRE scores and so forth. I don't think you need to be a braniac to be a teacher - having struggled will give you more empathy for your students - but I would like toSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08629099562256154869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604990465653925540.post-13979043934569696792012-01-10T19:34:53.777-05:002012-01-10T19:34:53.777-05:00Erica, what a great discovery! I love coming acro...Erica, what a great discovery! I love coming across things like that letter--they say so much more about family history, and the mores of the time, than pretty much anything else could. And I guess that's exactly the response I would expect most college seniors to have, too--to be mortified at the prospect of having parents intervene for them. <br /><br />And Susan, you raise an important Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223441754197927551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604990465653925540.post-9338212941153099992012-01-10T15:07:55.290-05:002012-01-10T15:07:55.290-05:00I here stories like this and I find them hard to b...I here stories like this and I find them hard to believe, except that you are an extremely trustworthy source.<br /><br />I don't have any problems with parents accompanying students to meetings - they are usually paying after all, and in some cultures this is the norm. (I understand in India parents often want to visit their children on the first week on the job.) Also, some students may Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08629099562256154869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604990465653925540.post-68633914139185436102012-01-09T22:10:16.163-05:002012-01-09T22:10:16.163-05:00A friend of mine is the admin in an engineering de...A friend of mine is the admin in an engineering department, and encounters helicopter parents far more often than she'd like. She generally amuses herself by imagining how the students' future manager will react when his new employee's mommy or daddy shows up requesting special consideration...<br /><br />Which, incidentally, was the topic in a very old family letter my uncle found Erica Retrochefhttp://retrorecipe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com