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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.”  I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.
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Are you scared your kid will learn something you don’t want them to know?[/quote]

Not responder here, but I do value the tuition dollars my child will be spending. I also value those years of their lives spent in college that they can never have back. So classes like these seem to be a sub-optimal investment of time and money.[/quote]

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