Dear parents: A perspective on the pros & cons of having your child stay at home for college

[austinmshauri]

I think you’re making a lot of erroneous assumptions. In my experience students commute because their families can’t afford the luxury of residential college, not because they want to monitor their “study, social, work, life balance.” If the statements below reflect your behavior in high school then the reasons your parents might have objected to sending you to residential college have little to do with your list of pros and cons.

Students will do just as they did in high school: lie (either white, or blatant), and slowly stop caring about your imposed curfews, rules, and objections.

Cons (and my experiences with them): Commuting long distances, from inconvenient locations, can lead to class skipping…

a major component of a lot of teenagers’ progression is the famed teenage rebellion where ingratitude, entitlement, and arguments become common words around the house, as well as the improvement of the familial relationship post-high school. I noticed that this is often more significant among the students who leave town for college, as the distance makes them realize what they took for granted.