Yes-- if, in another year or two, DD is comfortable being alone on her own overnight in an off-campus apartment, it would open up the ability for me to leave her there for two or three days at a time on her own. In the interim, I'll probably see what I can do working remotely, or take on adjunct teaching part-time in addition to doing remote work. Maybe call in a favor or two in the area-- I do know a few people, even if I don't trust them to be able to keep a household safe for my DD to live in.
The other nice thing about this campus-- and really, this IS something that other parents of PG kids should be thinking about-- is that in spite of the nominal "freshman residency" requirement for on-campus living, a small campus which is historically a non-traditional/commuter campus is going to have a greater number of exceptions than a traditional demographic at a more homogenous place. That means that a too-young-for-dorms student (and this is sometimes problematic for ANY student under 16, and definitely with a student who has any kind of medical condition) isn't so singular.
That has also been something we've worried about. As more campuses adopt requirements (as opposed to "recommendations") that freshmen live ON-CAMPUS, this means that fewer of a student's cohort and peers will have spent that year living outside of the framework. The more uniform it is, the more outside the culture outliers are. KWIM?
