Talk to a nanny when my mother-in-law is sick.

Your classmate's father must be under great pressure, otherwise he won't talk, because he is the pillar of this family. How can children drop out of school? How can you ruin your child's future with this? As a member of the family, I think your classmates should do the following things to help the family:

First, as you said, please ask the nanny to help dad share some housework;

The second is to communicate with dad once and tell him that he is retired now, and his mother still needs money to treat her illness. Then in another year, your classmates can take over dad's class and help support this family together.

Third, if the school is not far from home, choose to go home every day instead of staying at school. On the one hand, I talk to my mother more every day to ease my mother's mood, on the other hand, I can help my father do something to reduce the burden.

Please be sure to stay until you graduate from college!