Did college turn your kids, especially daughters, into political radicals? If so, which college

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Anonymous wrote:so we can avoid? I’m not having my kids turned into that.

Reasonable concern. Interesting that many posters do not believe in the effectiveness of indoctrination. Happens at lots of schools--both liberal and conservative. Happens in many countries such as China, Russia, and in the Middle East. Probably happens at Disney training as well as at other businesses and corporations.

My impression is that OP wants his/her children to get an education, not be subject to indoctrination focused on extreme political, religious, or social views whether conservative or liberal.

I watched a national news report last night that shared survey results which showed that Generation Z workers/employees are being fired frequently because "they are too easily offended" and, therefore, too hard to manage, to train, and to generate productive work.

The oldest members of Gen. Z are 26. The youngest are 10. Let's hear how they are as employees in 10-20 years.

Reasonable point. Nevertheless, the question of why Generation Z are good or not good employees will need to be reexamined at that time as both people and society change & develop.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberty. She came back a raving lunatic.

Liberty is the extreme in Christian colleges (I don't see a lot of Christianity in Falwell or the restrictive, right-wing and judgmental culture he fosters). When a friend's kid went there, I was shocked. But, the kid came out supporting her gay friend and standing up to someone bullying her. So, there are kids and faculty thinking there. They just can't always say it out loud!

I know another kid at a different conservative Christian college who came out indoctrinated with Trump election steal crap. That school actively pushed political ideology. Hoping they grow out of that, but when people only get info from a select set of sources and discredit actual news, it's hard! That school did not do due diligence educating.

I went to a more moderate Christian college and shifted far more left during my college time. My professors taught me to think critically in my theology and other classes, which was in contrast to the sermons I heard at my home church. I moved left ideologically and deepened my faith. Win win.

Not sure why OP is worried about left leaning schools. Mine is at a left leaning school, and there is open dialogue. Sure, sometimes there's pressure to view things a certain way, but it's certainly not restrictive like some of the right-wing institutions. My kid also considered a Christian college which tends to be conservative but encourages open discourse and thought growth. She would have been fine there too.

Stop starting fires, OP. Your attitude is the problem. That's more radical than anything you fear.

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Occidental. Even though the child and family are democrats and pretty liberal in a general sense, the child was shocked at how left it was. Left after one year to somewhere less extreme.

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DC has a friend who transitioned from top student in a science magnet in HS to an English major and activist in college. They have graduated and are working in reproductive rights advocacy. UMD honors student, dean's list. College is becoming an adult and evaluating life goals, has nothing to do with indoctrination, everyone changes over the course of those years.

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Anonymous wrote:DC has a friend who transitioned from top student in a science magnet in HS to an English major and activist in college. They have graduated and are working in reproductive rights advocacy. UMD honors student, dean's list. College is becoming an adult and evaluating life goals, has nothing to do with indoctrination, everyone changes over the course of those years.

Love this

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Anonymous wrote:Occidental. Even though the child and family are democrats and pretty liberal in a general sense, the child was shocked at how left it was. Left after one year to somewhere less extreme.

Yeah, don't believe you. I'm on the Oxy campus fairly often and the vibe is aggressively normcore, spend some money in LA, with some backlash of let's be chill and do LA on the cheap. But good students, mostly UMC from California.

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University of California Jerkeley, er I mean Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberty. She came back a raving lunatic.

This sounds troll like. Liberty families are devout and it is a certain type of student and they are already aware of politics. They would FYI not call anyone a lunatic.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a very liberal college and it found it anntafter a while so that I ended leaning right for many years. It was not until we elected a lunatic grifter and started taking away women’s freedoms that I leaned left. Now I want my kids to go to college in Canada to escape the gun violence.

You know Canada was arresting protesters and suspended civil rights during Covid? Just saying Canada may not be your dream choice. Also their socialized medicine causes many Canadians to come to US for medical care. I am thinking conversations about birth control might be a better idea.

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To the RWNJ parents on here, can you do me a favor and tell me which "woke" left wing schools you are concerned about opening the minds of your precious daughters?

Because these are exactly the schools my DD would want to apply to, and we want to make sure we're not missing any.

Enjoy Liberty.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to keep your DD conservative, you have to keep her home and stupid.

Education leads to more liberal/Democrat views, because the more you know the more you know Republicans are just craven, racist, self-serving hypocrites.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-a908-dfb1-a5df-e90da92d0000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000157-e4e0-df2b-a977-fcfc15350000&nlid=630318

There’s a generalization.

I'm amazed that anyone still identifies as Democrat or Republican. Both sides are ugly, in part because of this hatred of any view that differs from their own.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to keep your DD conservative, you have to keep her home and stupid.

Education leads to more liberal/Democrat views, because the more you know the more you know Republicans are just craven, racist, self-serving hypocrites.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-a908-dfb1-a5df-e90da92d0000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000157-e4e0-df2b-a977-fcfc15350000&nlid=630318

There’s a generalization.

I'm amazed that anyone still identifies as Democrat or Republican. Both sides are ugly, in part because of this hatred of any view that differs from their own.

Me too. I no longer can! I'm a PP who has given up on this thread because it just shows most parents think dogmatic thinking in universities is fine as long your side is winning. Very few posters saw the dogmatic thinking itself as a problem and antithetical to what should be happening at universities.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to keep your DD conservative, you have to keep her home and stupid.

Education leads to more liberal/Democrat views, because the more you know the more you know Republicans are just craven, racist, self-serving hypocrites.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-a908-dfb1-a5df-e90da92d0000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000157-e4e0-df2b-a977-fcfc15350000&nlid=630318

Spoken like a true moron.

Facts are facts. The more education you have, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.

The GOP has become the party of the dumb.

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Ever think, OP, that you are the radical here?

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Anonymous wrote:Ever think, OP, that you are the radical here?

I'm not OP, but I think you're all radicals.