You’re lucky if your kids have enough savings and scholarships that they don’t need you to contribute to their college educations. I don’t think that’s true for most.
What I was trying to say is that there are a few good colleges where students are Not indoctrinated with Leftist ideology. Those are preferable. If you can’t send your child to one of those schools, it might be better if they don’t go.
Both my parents were Republicans, and I was too, until about the second year at a state university. It took a long time before my political/economic ideas matured.
Of course, if the children are entirely financially independent, they can do what they want.
“You’re lucky if your kids have enough savings and scholarships that they don’t need you to contribute to their college educations”
I never said that. I said my oldest received a ton of academic and athletic scholarship money (basically, her tution is free, a full ride). She received that scholarship money based on her academics (from a public high school, GASP). She earned that money from her academic performance throughout high school, honors and AP classes, high gpa and high SAT score.
Of course, we as her parents, get to pay the rest...room and board, fees, etc. And, she also has to contribute. And she’s the oldest of 4 so we have 3 more to go, if they decide to go that route.
I went to Penn State. Did I have liberal profs? Of course.
“What I was trying to say is that there are a few good colleges where students are Not indoctrinated with Leftist ideology. Those are preferable. If you can’t send your child to one of those schools, it might be better if they don’t go.”
And, I disagree. If their minds are so mushy that they’ll believe anything, then it doesn’t really matter if they go to college or not. And, it doesn’t matter where they attend college.
“Both my parents were Republicans, and I was too, until about the second year at a state university. It took a long time before my political/economic ideas matured”
See? You had your own mind. Now, me, both my parents were Conservative Republicans. And I was, too. And, I continued to be a Conservative Republican throughout college, at Penn State :) College and all its “stuff” didn’t change any of my views. A couple of my brothers weren’t as Conservative back when they were in high school and college or the early years. They struggled but somehow ended up being Republicans once they had to pay taxes.
My husband was made to be completely “financially independent” as a senior in high school...by his evangelical, conservative, republican parents. He was also made to believe that he wasn’t going to college unless he could pay for it himself (he wasn’t the “Golden Child” who was parroting their beliefs). Wonder why he was a lib in college, lol! Yet, he’s the one that got a full ride, engineering, to Penn State. He’s a Conservative in spite of his background (or despite his background). It took him a long time to understand just how screwed up his evangelical, so called conservative parents were. Their idea of family, conservatism was wacked. It made him into the man he is so it wasn’t all bad ;)
We all have our stories. I grew up in a close family, education was valued and attending college was a privilege, something to aspire to. It didn’t matter if I got any scholarship money (fortunately, I did), if I wanted to go, my parents would make sure I could go. It wasn’t available to them but it was to their kids. And govt help wasn’t a determining factor.
My parents may have worried about what I was learning in college, along with all the partying, but I was an adult and treated like one.
No one can be indoctrinated without their permission.
“If you can’t send your child to one of those schools, it might be better if they don’t go”
That’s a huge cop out, imo.