D-Plan Mentoring is a Bad Idea

To the Editor: In a recent article, "Students Adopt Five Children, Remain Abroad," (June 30) the adopters of five underprivileged children are lauded for their efforts in making the orphan children's lives better... for three months. As an undergrad and participant of the Templeton READS program, where Dartmouth students acted as mentors to underprivelaged children, I found the D-Plan mentoring to be highly superficial and barely effective.