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

[Anonymous]

My college moved me significantly to the left. Graduated with a women’s studies minor. I’m still very left of my conservative Catholic family. Enough that it causes real issues.

Wake Forest

[Anonymous]

College is about being exposed to people and ideas outside the comfort of where you were raised and by whom you were raised. It's only natural that they may see and hear views that resonate with them in that setting. It should not be threatening, it's part of growing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Bad move on your part - my daughter is at a women's college right now and has shifted right due to all the way left people in her classes. One of the 7 sisters.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

My dads biggest regret years ago was sending me to Berkeley! But I am older and not radical at all anymore.

[Anonymous]

George Mason turned me into an atheist. One of my gen ed courses was Religion 101, and it was taught by a practicing minister. But he was so good, so objective, and so unbiased, that he was able to unbox religion in the classroom, yet lead his church on Sunday.

One of my favorite, most esteemed people til this day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:George Mason turned me into an atheist. One of my gen ed courses was Religion 101, and it was taught by a practicing minister. But he was so good, so objective, and so unbiased, that he was able to unbox religion in the classroom, yet lead his church on Sunday.

One of my favorite, most esteemed people til this day.

I had a VERY similar experience in my required religion class at the Baptist affiliated LAC I went to. Female professor who was also a practicing minister, but maybe at an Episcopal church b/c I'm fairly certain Baptists don't allow women into the clergy.


Question for parents worried about their young adults becoming radicalized - Do you consider the rolling back of women's reproductive rights - by the right - radical? Because as mentioned up thread, I think the right is doing quite a bang up job on all their own "radicalizing" young adults.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

My kids would probably say it happened at the dinner table.

[Anonymous]

OP, you probably shouldn't send your kids to college.

[Anonymous]

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

+1

Oral Roberts University

And she insists on ankle-length skirts.

[Anonymous]

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

Why would you send her there?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

I would argue that the current attitude in universities has too many illiberal elements. We're not talking about students becoming moderate Democrats. We're talking about students eager to burn it all down and demanding everyone agree with them.

[Anonymous]

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

It's one thing for your kids to shift liberal. It's a completely different matter for them to shift to leftist/ progressive.

If that happened to one of my kids, that would be the day I stopped funding their education.