What is the staff’s experience with homesickness and what are the procedures for extreme homesickness?
Instructors have strategies to divert students from focusing on feeling homesick, ranging from keeping an eye out, talking with them, keeping them engaged in the activities, etc. Generally students are comforted but encouraged to stay on course unless they are so homesick that they aren’t getting anything out of the program. If the problem persists, parents may be called, and in extreme cases students go home, although this is rare.
