<p>My daughter was very interested in living off campus in a house next year when she returns to Reed. I inititally didn't have a problem with it, but the more I think about it, the more I would prefer for her to live on campus. Not becuase I think the area is unsafe, but because of her ADD she doesn't pay attention to the little details as well as she might, and living with someone who has already graduated may be more difficult than living with other students. I can also see her living on cold cereal :eek: I suppose its better than ramen...</p>
<p>However, a friend who will be a junior is being pushed to move back onto campus for safety reasons apparently, and my daughter may live with her, taking some of the burden off of me for not wanting her to live off campus so much.
But I never really thought of the safety aspect, and I had another interesting conversation with my daughter today about the school where she works.
Now she attended this school and it is private but was very egalitarian and still is. I knew that certain very prominent people had their kids there, and I knew that they had body guards patrolling their beachfront house but I don't know why it never occured to me that they would have bodyguards attending school with the kids.Now I find out that there are not only "those" bodyguards but other kids have bodyguards as well. This kinda gives me the shivers, cause I imagine those bodyguards are armed, and that their priority are their charges and thats it.
But what the heck do they do when they get to college? This is so far out of my area, I knew that the Bush girls had secret service, but those other kids who are from prominent families, do the body guards attend classes with them or what?
It just seemed so weird to me, especially that the kids would have a bodyguard but then be in the extended care program, you would think they would just have a nanny?
I just wanted to share cause I was surprised at how naive I was about what precautions some people have to take. I was also wndering what people do to help prepare their kids, I encouraged my daughter to take a self defense class at school ( PE credit) which I would encourage everyone to do, it was modeled after the model mugging classes and seemed to give her confidence although thankfully she hasn't had to test it out yet.
But living in Seattle and moving to Portland she hasn't really come across crime laden areas, and thinking of kids studying abroad in areas where americians could be targeted ( I am not thinking terrorism- just dumb touristy stuff), made me wonder what kids do to prepare for taking on a lot more responsibilty than they might have in the States.</p>