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Why was Mansfield's Family Eating on Campus?

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Anonymous:
Regarding HLA, I think parents perspective and outlooks were formed by how they were treated by HLA along with their children. I have said before that I believe the parents that have a good outlook and perspective of HLA were the ones with fairly compliant children whose parents just nodded yes to every piece of information and recommendation they were given by HLA. Some of us really wanted to believe in HLA and have a positive outlook, but were jerked around by the HLA administration and promised so many things that never happened. It is hard to have a positive outlook when you are paying out that kind of money and at the same time being treated like crap by HLA. Bad treatment and bad experience by HLA equals bad outlook and perspective.

RobertBruce:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---It doesn't need justifying.  HLA does not have to run every policy by the parents.  The parents are not share holders, they are customers.  If HLA wants to allow families to eat on campus that is their business.  On the occasions that I ran into HLA parents in the dining hall and had my family there, the parents thought it was wonderful that my family was there.  That is one of the interesting things about working in a place like HLA.  What some families see as a great thing, other families see as a bad thing.  I guess it depends on your perspective and outlook.
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Parents very very seldom ever ate in the lodge. Youre painting a picture that would suggest that not only does this occur often, but when it does parents are always okay with it. Nothing could be further from the truth. As to not needing justifying, so it's your argument that even though the parents are the ones who are paying for the food to be placed on the table, they have no say so in how things are done? Gee, with such solid business practices its a wonder you guys are having so many problems over there. This of course the same mentality we saw with the strip searching policy. HLA staff never actively disclosed that little factoid to parents because apparently paying six grand a month doesnt garruntee being told what it is your paying for.

So again lap dog, justify this policy for me.

HLA Truth:
All I can say is that in MY experience I never had a parent express anything but pleasure over the fact that me or my family were on campus eating, or doing anything else, that was interacting with the students.  You are right that it was rare that parents ate in the dining hall, but there were often parents coming through there on tours while we ate.  The admission people would often point out that families come on campus to eat with the student body as a selling point to the parents.  I am actually surprised that folks on this site are not saying that HLA allowed it to happen in order to manipulate families into thinking it was a family atmosphere.

Troll Control:
So, was it a manipulation?

Anonymous:
Screw the eating in the Lodge thing. Are you trying to say that HLA administration members that lead those "parent workshop brainwashing sessions" and not master manipulators? Please do no insult our intelligence here. They tell you that your child will regress if you pull them out of HLA early to try and manipulate parents into keeping their children there. Parents believe what they want to believe based on their level of denial and fear.  HLA talks about the "Harder Truth". Any parent with any analytical skills can see straight through that Con job and see the real Harder truth. People with psychology backgrounds should know that you will not get a positive outcome with a student by keeping them in such a negative and very unhealthy environment all the time.

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