Posted on 02/25/2010 3:35:47 AM PST by Scanian
I performed my "American Tea Party Anthem" and "Twenty Ten: We're Gonna Vote Them Out" at CPAC as a representative for TeaPartyExpress.org. I was struck and excited by the high number of youths in attendance (over 50% were under 25 years old). With liberal iron-fisted dictatorship regimes ruling most of America's campuses, how did these kids survive the attempts to indoctrinate them?
Those with whom I chatted said they simply figured it out. Just the other day, a friend's daughter, who is a freshman in college, complained about being forced to write a flowery essay about how Obama mirrors Martin Luther King. It is a shame that this brilliant young lady must choose between publicly standing up for her principles or a passing grade. The youths at CPAC were extremely enthusiastic and upbeat. I suspect that many are practicing stealth conservatism at college.
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Thanks for your input, Lloyd.............. always spot on.
Just the other day, a friend's daughter, who is a freshman in college, complained about being forced to write a flowery essay about how Obama mirrors Martin Luther King. It is a shame that this brilliant young lady must choose between publicly standing up for her principles or a passing grade.
My daughters and I figured out a way for them to do both. Simply state at the beginning of the paper something like, "the texts say..." or "my professor taught...." and end with a closing paragraph of personal belief. Two of mine have done this and actually garnered positive feedback from their professors on that.
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