WSJ -Sorry, Harvard. Everyone Wants to go to School in the South

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Treated properly - not tested

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever floats your boat.
But DD is not keen to go anywhere south due to the draconian abortion policies and I think that’s smart.

Have you considered birth control for your DD? It is free in all of our counties in the south at the health departments.

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprising as the population in the US has been moving South and West.

Climate change will catch up with them. Then, when the south is inundated and the west has no water, they'll come back.

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We also have morning after pills in the south.

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Anonymous wrote:Am surprised that people - especially young women!- would support places that restrict basic reproductive rights.

Are people just turning their heads the other way? It's so fundamental to young women having basic care, and given that about 20 percent of women need to have an abortion at some time in their lives, are these girls flying home to get abortion pills? The number of rapes and accidental pregnancies on campuses is so high.

They bring them when they move in. Duh!

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Anonymous wrote:Am surprised that people - especially young women!- would support places that restrict basic reproductive rights.

Are people just turning their heads the other way? It's so fundamental to young women having basic care, and given that about 20 percent of women need to have an abortion at some time in their lives, are these girls flying home to get abortion pills? The number of rapes and accidental pregnancies on campuses is so high.

Honestly? This blows my mind, too

We chose to not even put this scenario into our equation

And we are out of here if this country bans abortion completely against the will of the people.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/detroit-tigers-mlb-playoffs-35e7b03c?st=ie351c&reflink=article_copyURL_share

A growing number of high-school seniors in the North are making an unexpected choice for college: They are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama and other universities in the South.

Students say they are searching for the fun and school spirit emanating from the South on their social-media feeds. Their parents cite lower tuition and less debt, and warmer weather. College counselors also say many teens are eager to trade the political polarization ripping apart campuses in New England and New York for the sense of community epitomized by the South’s football Saturdays. Promising job prospects after graduation can sweeten the pot.

The number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest available Education Department data found.

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, total freshmen from the Northeast jumped to nearly 600 in a class of about 6,800, up from around 50 in 2002. At the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, they increased from 11 to more than 200 in a class of about 4,500 in 2022. At the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 11% of students came from the Northeast in 2022, compared with less than 1% two decades prior.

Anyone picking U Alabama over Harvard and Tuscaloosa over Boston, really needs to get their head examined.

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Anonymous wrote:pp here, and I am 100% biased against any school in any state that bans books, abortion and is anti LGBTQ+ and trans people

The churches in the south welcome GGBTQ and trans and have for years.

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Anonymous wrote:yes, my child who has serious repro system problems is NOT attending school in a state that might make emergency surgery too difficult to obtain.

Those states tend to also be the same with anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which she specifically told us she wanted to avoid in solidarity with her many friends in that community.

Hey, good for your child who wanted to be the change. More power to them.

We made a different choice for our own personal reasons.

Why do you need to try to change my mind? It isn't needed. Our children are both happy with where they landed

Sounds like your kids will fit in perfectly in New England.

Bizarre you have a teenager with know serious reproductive issues, but okay.

NP. Most people know with the exception of Southern Republican politicians that endometriosis can cause issues with fertility.

I’m the original poster of this sub thread. Thank you for understanding. Having repro system issues doesn’t mean my daughter is some cheap trollop. It means we have been through multiple ER visits for horrifically painful ovarian cysts. We have tried to help her with her terrible period cramps/pain and sadly had some of the solutions be worse than the original problem.

And I say again, I do not trust that she will be tested properly if an emergency situation arose in a red state. You can say I’m crying wolf or whatever, but doctors have had their hands tied to the point that women have died because a basically no brainer medical procedure to save her life is fought over by lawyers for too long and the doctors have to wait while they watch this woman slip away for no dang good reason.

I’ll be damned if I’m entrusting my daughters reproductive organs to any red state medical facility

Almost every state, red or blue that pouts reproductive rights on the ballot chooses to reinforce rather than undermine reproductive rights.
We'll get there, state by state.

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Anonymous wrote:yes, my child who has serious repro system problems is NOT attending school in a state that might make emergency surgery too difficult to obtain.

Those states tend to also be the same with anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which she specifically told us she wanted to avoid in solidarity with her many friends in that community.

Hey, good for your child who wanted to be the change. More power to them.

We made a different choice for our own personal reasons.

Why do you need to try to change my mind? It isn't needed. Our children are both happy with where they landed

Sounds like your kids will fit in perfectly in New England.

Bizarre you have a teenager with know serious reproductive issues, but okay.

NP. Most people know with the exception of Southern Republican politicians that endometriosis can cause issues with fertility.

I’m the original poster of this sub thread. Thank you for understanding. Having repro system issues doesn’t mean my daughter is some cheap trollop. It means we have been through multiple ER visits for horrifically painful ovarian cysts. We have tried to help her with her terrible period cramps/pain and sadly had some of the solutions be worse than the original problem.

And I say again, I do not trust that she will be tested properly if an emergency situation arose in a red state. You can say I’m crying wolf or whatever, but doctors have had their hands tied to the point that women have died because a basically no brainer medical procedure to save her life is fought over by lawyers for too long and the doctors have to wait while they watch this woman slip away for no dang good reason.

I’ll be damned if I’m entrusting my daughters reproductive organs to any red state medical facility

Almost every state, red or blue that pouts reproductive rights on the ballot chooses to reinforce rather than undermine reproductive rights.
We'll get there, state by state.

This I do know

But you know if those idiots take the Fed, they will supersede the states

And they are dangerously close to getting rid of medication abortion through the courts

I swear to whoever, I cannot with the insanity. I just can’t raise my girls under minority rule that strips them of their rights.

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Anonymous wrote:pp here, and I am 100% biased against any school in any state that bans books, abortion and is anti LGBTQ+ and trans people

The churches in the south welcome GGBTQ and trans and have for years.

Ok, but state laws don’t reflect this

Do you agree with every state law in your state?

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Anonymous wrote:It's really interesting they want northern kids. If the kids settle there, that will certainly turns places blue for the most part.

The northern kids going to southern schools tend to be the more moderate ones.

All these ridiculous generalizations on this thread, based on what? FFS.

DP. From the article:

“Some students are saying, ‘I don’t want to be in a super political environment,’ and they are opting into an atmosphere where they can focus on things other than politics,” he said.

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Also this:

Southern schools have, by and large, better track records on free speech, according to rankings by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonprofit civil liberties group which has defended faculty and students in cases regarding speech issues. This year, most of the top 25 schools are located in the South. The six schools with the worst ratings were in the Northeast.

Following student protests over the war in Gaza, some Jewish and Southeast Asian students declined to apply to some highly selective schools in the Northeast because the environment is so tense, said Rachel Rubin, co-founder of Spark Admissions, a private college-counseling company.

“They are being much more careful about which Ivies they are applying to and are expanding their search to the rest of the country,” she said.