She's been sentenced to the 'covid hotel' for students at St Nazi College who have come in close contact with someone with covid. Mind you, she does not have covid...but she is being forced to stay in this on campus 'hotel' for 10 days. She must do her work remotely. She is 'allowed' 3 walks outside per day, for XX minutes a day, at specified times. They bring her meals. This is a private college, known for its excellence in music education. My daughter has always wanted to be a music teacher. She is based. A Trump supporter. A solid Christian. But, they have infiltrated her mind as she considers this sentence 'sound policy'. That, right there, is the worst part of it. She is missing TWO concerts, that she's worked all semester on, this weekend because her prison sentence comes during this and is 'unfortunate timing'. The bright side? Well, as her parents, we don't have to watch her concerts online (no in person attendance allowed) wearing her black muzzle while they sing and dance because she is no longer in the production. It pains us to watch that nonsense. Have we done anything about it? Absolutely! We sent the president our two cents worth... with no response, and even against our daughter's wishes. I soooo look forward to the day there is the true 4-6% left that haven't woken up. I do believe my daughter will wake up. We have sent her countless emails on mask wearing, and have had the talks about covid and the nonsense. I do think she is listening but her peers are the white noise while she's away. Unlike I would be, she's just a good kid and willing to take her 'sentence' like a 'grown up'. Pray for her. Pray they 'reduce her sentence'! I know this can't be easy.
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So sad. And your daughter seems strangely docile. Is it possible she’s depressed or deluded. Many good-hearted young women believe that nothing bad can happen to them if they remain pleasant and compliant in the face of adversity. Reading Flannery O’Connor reveals the opposite, if one is willing to read her work as both textbooks and fiction.
The other commenter here is right about there being very few music educators now. I once worked at the National Association for Music Education (NAFME). It is shocking to see their decline in membership over the past ten years. You and your daughter really need to look at actual employment outlook figures, not promises from professors.
It’s possible, barely, to be a music teacher these days, but your daughter may need to teach privately and would need a lot of support from you to get started. Her professors may be all rosy about a “career” in ME, but they themselves need a constant influx of new students in order to justify their college jobs. (BTW, the literature profs did the same thing to English majors. Ask me how I know.)
I hope I’m wrong; I sense a tragedy in the making. Yet things don’t necessarily have to happen that way. Sensibly, you’re not telling your daughter what to do and how to run her life. Comfort her regardless of what happens—while encouraging her to consider what is fair, factual, and most of all, to her personal best advantage. No one—even you—can take care of her better than she can. Her current situation is a first-class opportunity to learn how to do that.
Thanks for your concern. She is a normally very docile individual, so no concerns from us there. This area has a 'shortage' in music education and she gets grants to support her college degree expenses because of it. She isn't paying anything, and even no loans whatsoever. One more year and she'll be done. She's in great spirits in spite of this.
What an excellent comment and assessment.