Professors and TAs: is the media legend about overbearing parents of college students contesting their adult ""kids""' grades a true thing? Has it happened to you? Can you tell your story?
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"I am an adjunct professor at a local college and my wife is a full time college professor. I personally have never been contacted by any parent of a student except in the event of an extreme emergency (like my son/daughter is in the hospital and will not be at the exam). My wife, however, has had parents contact her about their kid's grades and her response is always the same, "Your son/daughter is over 18, an adult, and is the only person that I can discuss grades or anything else related to the course. If you have questions concerning their academics you must discuss it with them directly." She has had parents then try to go over her head and tell her administrators that she is being uncooperative but they are hip to the game and have always had her back, again denying any and all information to anyone but the student. "
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Not a grade thing, but I worked at my college's IT Desk for 4 years, and we routinely got calls from parents about network issues their children were experiencing. And attempting to troubleshoot through a third party on the other side of the state is a lost cause.
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TA here. I had a girl in my lab realize she was in the wrong class about halfway through the semester (I thought she had just added the class late). I put her in contact with her real TA and the lab coordinator and they were discussing what to do about her grade. Her mother called the lab coordinator to try to fix everything for her daughter. Even though the lab coordinator didn't share any information, she got in trouble for even talking to the mother.
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My best friend is an adjunct professor and he had one case of a really crazy parent, who actually tried to sue him over the student's grade. The student got around a D and was going to lose scholarship money because of it. The parent claimed that my friend didn't make enough concessions for her diabetic child. The case never made it to court, but the parent did file papers.
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If you are over 18, FERPA specifically disallows communicating grades with anyone other than the student unless the student specifically provides written permission. To actually answer the question, I have worked at 3 universities and 1 speciality college and have never had a parent contact me concerning grades. I've had very few students even discuss grades with me afterwards. I also deal mostly with upper-level students who know better by that point. The few instances where I've worked with younger college students, they have been too scared of me to risk contact their parents.
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I had a student bring a parent a long to class. The parent confronted me about how difficult the work was for the student, and begged me to make the work easier. The student also tried to bring in a note from Mom to excuse late assignments after that ambush. I have also had parents call my office to discuss their ADULT - like mid-30s adult - child's grades and tell me that I'm just being unfair because in their other classes, they do so much better. If you're super interested in stories like this, there is a whole thread in the discussion boards of the Chronicle of Higher Education, which I think you can access for free.
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A few days ago I ran into the prof I T.A.'d for this past year, and he told me that he had a mother contact him to contest the C her son got on his final essay. I don't even...
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"I never once had a parent come to me contesting a kid's grade, in four years as a TA. I really think this is just the media blowing up one or two incidents because it reinforces the outrage people want to feel about "helicopter parenting." "
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TA for 5 years I never had a parent get in contact with me, but when I was the coordinator for the TAs, I was aware that someone else caught a student in huge amounts of cheating (having someone else do his assignments) and it resulted in his mother coming in and threatening to sue for anti-antisemitism. The school backed the other TA, and in the end, it was settled as an F in the course, but not being kicked out of the school.
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"I work in the Registrar's Office at a small liberal arts school and I cannot tell you how many times this has happened to me. I once had a parent fly in from a foreign country to try and remove a "B" grade from a student's transcript. I told the parent that it was HIGHLY unlikely, and IF anything were to happen, the student would have to be the one to initiate any sort of grade appeal. I asked the parent how the student felt about the grade, and he said it didn't matter, because a "B" wasn't good enough for him. "
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