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At least 90% of college administrations and faculties are left liberal lunatics. So if you spend $20,000 to $40,000 a year to send the kid to college, you can be sure they will receive non-stop propaganda with a few basic themes: hate Bush and Republicans; worship at the altar of Clinton, Kennedy & Co.; socialism is good and capitalism is evil; terrorists are misunderstood freedom fighters, but our troops are murderers, Israel threatens world peace, etc. Your student leaves with no understanding of the evils of Stalin, Marxism, Leninism, Hitler, or Saddam Hussein, and his or her brain has been washed to believe that the history of the United States is something to be ashamed of. Students graduate with little understanding of how our economy works. All of this is subsidized by the Federal government, your tax money. The universities and their staffs are obsolete, overpriced, anti-capitalist, profoundly "stuck on stupid", and even subversive.

The universities and their staffs are obsolete, overpriced, anti-capitalist, profoundly "stuck on stupid", and even subversive.

Well said!

The indoctrination at college is quite a challenge for parents like me expected to pay for this rather expensive "gift" for all my children.

Two in college and two in private school is not for the faint hearted or poor.

And all for just the purpose of extending adolescence or resisting indoctrination from messianic lefty humanists

When I was at Ole Miss in the late 70s, tuition was about 600/semester and nice two bedroom apartments rented for 150/month

I'm ambivalent about this. I don't want my children left behind as far as this societal indulgence takes them, but sometimes it seems like fancy or even some public colleges for middle and upper middle class kids are a social rung sorta. Something for them to have and parents to tinkle glass over at holiday parties with neighbors who are engaged in the same pursuit. I'm living this precisely right now.

Unless your child wants to do something "professional" like medicine or law or teach at an advanced level then I'm really ambivalent about all this. I got mine in Poli Sci with the intention of law school...took the LSAT...did great...got letters.....but left the country more less for 16 years and never looked back...was tired of school.

Now I own self storage and car washes and other mundane investments that have Sam Hill to do with college...

And don't get me started on spending a fortune on daughter's college and even grad degrees so that by late 20s or early 30s they can rightly so get all fuzzy about mothering and drop it all to raise their children....which I support completely but you wonder was it worth 250K for them to be able to articulate English Lit or God forbid Women's Studies with their soccer mom pals....which is probably something they would never do anyhow.

I had this very conversation with a neighbor at our Halloween party. He's a doctor. She's a mommy with a Hollins degree (Hollins was not cheap even in the 70s). Anyhow....they have one at Washington and Lee, one at Clemson, and daughters at the toniest girls school here which may be more expensive than out-of-state at Clemson . I asked her "why do it"? She looked at me like I had no clue and declared it was a "gift"

I've been thinking about that. I'd rather "gift" them a nice home or a business start then just burn money especially with the rampant leftism at colleges.

It was an easier accommodated gift 30 years ago.

Will save this thread and share your post with my college student son--he is pretty aware and conservative.

I like your full description of what he and his friends are up against on the various campuses they attend.