So today I was chatting with one of the teenagers in my class about her plans after high school. And... I didn’t know how to properly respond to her situation, at all. (1/?)
Support them and help them realize what they'll be up against (particularly, financially, when parents are wielding that as a weapon of abuse, which this is) to accomplish their goals.
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Also anesthesiology is full of creeps (to put it nicely). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12441 …
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On a more practical front, if you're advising a student in this situation, you might encourage them to work out how many courses could plausibly be on-track for either degree, to maximize academic progress they can make before parents catch on.
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Yes this is deceptive but we live in a country where higher education is structured financially to give parents unjust control over whether adult children have access to the fields of study they want and even more basic things like expression of their gender or orientation.
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Having to take out loans or work a full-time job to cover 2 years of college is a lot less of a burden than having to cover 4 years.
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