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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh who cares. Most great architecture in history was built with slave labor of some sort. Should we tear it all down. We’ve all lost our minds. Focus on treating people in your real life fairly and kindly instead of on divisive woke-ism. [/quote]

Well, many people do care. It’s not that the Lee in the name. It’s the Grand Old South atmosphere that refuses to acknowledge they lost the War of Northern Aggression. The school is proud of its heritage, and Lee’s presidency and the gravesite and make no effort to put in context.  Which is fine.  It’s private.  It’s a free country.  Spend your money and send your kid there.  But many people are not okay with the harkening back to the confederacy aspects of the school and take real issue with that southern white mentality. It’s says something about the kid who chooses to attend.  You’re right. It’s a selective school. I’m sure every kid there had other options. They chose W&L, which is so frat boy southern.

People are judged by the choices they make and the college they attend. If so many kids weren’t chasing that, why would this Board exist?  And most W&L grads had choices. They made theirs.  Liberty grads made theirs. Harvard grads made theirs.  Smith grads made theirs.  Etc And every grad school and future employer will use that as a proxy. It might not be fair. But, I encourage my kid to make theirs and attend a college they feel proud of. You should to. If it’s W&L, I’m sure you have your reasons and you don’t need to defend them.  Unless, you think you do? [/quote]

I think you might be a bit of a simpleton. Employers and graduate schools etc absolutely do NOT think in this way. At all.[/quote]

Are you trying to convince me.  Or yourself?  Because if what you are saying is that no grad school or employer ever looked at the college you attended and made assumptions based on that, you’re the simpleton. Of course they do. It’s why people chase Ivy’s. But only the good ones, because Cornell. Alt right employers judge Oberlin grads and alt left ones judge Liberty and there are shades in between.

If you think no one judges W&L, multiple people on this thread have indicated otherwise. [/quote]

Oh, I realize insecure stay at home mommies are judgmental. That’s practically in their job description. But to the degree an employer or grad school is judgmental it’s limited to the perceived academic rigor of a school and/or its programs. Not related to whether or not a school is fratty, southern, hippyish, crunchy or other such intangibles. I mean, we got an earful during the Kavanaugh hearings about how fratty Yale is but its graduates still do just fine.

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Please. I am an employer (actually we run several businesses). I never evaluate hires based on dissecting the name of their college! I look for people with the appropriate skills, work ethic, etc . . . I’m definitely not evaluating candidates based on perceived woke-ism. Anyway, my neighborhood is full of the wokest woke, yard signs everywhere. Of course, why did they move to the neighborhood? Because heaven forbid larla actually attend school with black or brown children. Such divisive hypocrisy. You woke loons need to make sure you are treating the people in your daily life well - try being kind to the Whole Foods cashier- before getting on your smug little soap box and requiring that pretty much everything be renamed. [/quote]

Um. Whatever are you prattling on about?[/quote]

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