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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

O.M.G.

[Anonymous]

I'm just assuming my kid will be insufferable for a while when she starts college. I did make her promise to only go to a professional for any piercings and not to let someone do it in the dorm bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Liberty. She came back a raving lunatic.

[Anonymous]

Let your kids figure out who they are. For God's sake cut the cord!

[Anonymous]

Not all universities are political activist environments. Go to a southern school or one in Texas and you’ll avoid a lot of woke activists.

[Anonymous]

If the fact that your daughter's reproductive freedoms are being stripped away doesn't turn her into a political radical all on its own, I don't think you have to worry about anything else doing it.

[Anonymous]

Calvin College
Wheaton

[Anonymous]

Only if your kid is stupid, OP.

Intelligent people usually have measured geopolitical opinions and they use regional, national and international facts and examples to back them up. In the "you make valid points but I happen to have a different opinion" category.

If she becomes an extremist of any flavor, you only have genetic reassortment and upbringing to blame!

[Anonymous]

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

+1. Liberty, Bob Jones University, Hillsdale, Cedarville

[Anonymous]

My sister went to Hampshire of all places as a run of the mill liberal and came back slightly more conservative for the experience. If your kid goes wid in college it's 100% on you, not the college. Even a far left den like Hampshire.

[Anonymous]

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

Lol 😂 yes that would happen there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not all universities are political activist environments. Go to a southern school or one in Texas and you’ll avoid a lot of woke activists.

Tell me you know nothing about UT without telling me you know nothing about UT.

[Anonymous]

In my xpeience a lot of middle of road kids who go to liberal schools end up shifting slightly right.
I know someone totally radicalized at UVA, which does not have a reputation as a liberal hotseat.

[Anonymous]

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

I wish you much success. I vetoed women's colleges, Oberlin, and Middlebury. My DD went to UChicago and even so, by the time COVID sent her home in 2nd year, was coldly responding "they have insurance" when I showed her the looting and riot damage to small businesses in our own central city neighborhood. I don't think you can keep any Gen Z kids away from radicalization, because even schools that haven't gone entirely off the deep end still have radical communities, and then there's the whole internet to contend with.

But, keep trying to provide balance and critical thinking skills. A few years later, my DD is a bit older and wiser, and has picked up some solid bullsh!t-detecting skills thanks to her excellent liberal arts education. She doesn't follow radicals blindly anymore and can handle the thought that they might not find her cool if she pushes back on their worst excesses. The worst of it was a phase.