I’m pretty sure I have the mother of a student emailing me through her son’s email account telling me to fix his scheduling issues for this summer and next fall (very much not my job), and she also called the department and left messages with the departmental admin.
Helicopter parents are INSANE.
This is right after my department head emailed me to say that we are going to hybrid course delivery in the fall, which means I have to prepare both online and in-person versions of the same course. My old prof at UT said they’re toying with the same.
Helicopter Karens + Hybrid Courses + “fake concerned, but really just concerned enough to cover liability” administrators = there’d better be f@&$ing football next fall if I have to put up with much more of this bulls&$.
I’m about to go full McGill over here.