For the military, it's not really monetary benefits, but it gives them more flexability into where they go for their next orders, etc. If they can get their kid classified as "EFMP" exceptional family member program, they have more control over where they get stationed and when. If you have 2 or 3 kids with that designation, you have even more control over your orders.
I'm obviously not in the military and I'm going off what my wife and her coworkers(many of which are military wives) have told me. This is also an air force town, so I don't know if its different for different branches. Wouldn't think it would be.
C'mon, folks: the Wayback Machine is your friend. (And folks with skillz, please download and save it for future consideration, 'cause unc will get it removed from there, too!)
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I am very familiar with EFMP but there is no way I would classify it as a benefit and for the Navy it does not give a service member more flexibility when it comes to orders. In fact, it is the opposite, it locks service members into major fleet concentration areas (Norfolk, San Diego, Bremerton) with large hospitals capable of providing requisite medical care. EFMP designation pretty much disqualifies a service member for overseas duty which could indirectly impact upward mobility.
I don't intend for my next comment to be rude but I do intend for it to be pointed -- IMO, you don't know what you're talking about.
Bob Green
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Cleveland State right now:
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Again, I'm only repeating what these military wives have told me and/or my wife. I literally texted one of these women before I responded to your post to make sure I was understanding what they were telling me before posting. My post was almost word for word from her mouth and it repeats what several others at the school are doing.
Right wrong or indifferent, that's what more than one family has told me.
Maybe they aren't getting the benefits they think they are, but they are definitely pushing for that classification because they think it helps them.
I'm just taking these families/teachers at their word that they consider it a benefit and as a result, seek it out.
Edit: Moving on, to keep the thread on topic. Thank you for your service Bob, not trying to argue, you obviously know more about military life than I do.
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Move along-still nothing to hear/see/speak of here.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Handing out ADHD diagnosis, pills and no show classes amounts to exploitation of real human beings. Even if the athletes don’t use the meds they don’t need, isn’t the university an accomplice if they are given/sold to other students.
Forget about sports and money and cheating; this amounts to evil. Taking advantage of less fortunate people who you are manipulating for your own personal gain. That is sad human behavior.
I want to believe the concussion research had lofty ambitions and good intentions. Maybe it started out that way but it appears ego took the controls.
I’m not convinced UNC is a bad university, but I am becoming convinced that any intersection with UNC athletics ends badly.
Let's not forget that Jan Boxill at the center of the fake class scandal was head of the Parr Center for Ethics.
Let's not ignore they problems they've had with Title IX rape investigations. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...-investigation
Or that their hospital had to shut down many pediatric cardio surgeries AFTER someone blew the whistle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/u...ldren-unc.html
Then of course we have their football stadium named after a key figure in the Wilmington Massacre. We have the UNC BOT and Ram's Club Chair swapping seats and lots of other shady University things in general.The actions are in response to a New York Times investigation last month into the medical institution, where cardiologists, department leaders and even the former head of the children’s hospital expressed concerns about patients faring poorly after heart surgery there. Secret audio recordings provided to The Times captured doctors talking openly, some even saying they might not feel comfortable allowing their own children to have surgery at the hospital.
The more I learn about UNC the more I think it is a bad University where the good people stay quite because they need a job.
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Tsk, tsk. I'm disappointed you overlooked this gem with their entire hospital system on probation, tying right in with the pediatric cardiac surgical disaster:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...ommission.html
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.