[MtnClimber]

Parents need to make sure their children have a strong set of conservative values before high school. Colleges are a mess. They need core values to survive the leftist cancer.

[Tazzo]

https://www.hillsdale.edu/

[Betty Jane]

Look at regional state colleges. They’re usually less expensive, have more personal instruction and are focused on gaining the knowledge for employment. Look in flyover states for cheaper schools. A decent student with a decent ACT score can get full tuition somewhere. A 3.5 GPA and a good test score can a full rife somewhere. The higher both are the more money is available.

Set the budget before your kid applies to make sure he has somewhere he can graduate without debt.

[wintertime]

Re: Religious Colleges

Don’t go to Villanova, an Augustinian Catholic university. I am a graduate. Even in the mid-70’s it was thoroughly infiltrated with social justice Marxists.

[cuz1961]

College murders wisdom as effectively

as much as

cemataries, er, seminaries murder theology

Both have as their main goal

robbing people of their faith
and knowledge of and acknowledgement
of God.

The quality of education has been being diminished as fast as possible imho.

How long till even they do away with structurally systemic racist objective grades ?

Soon diplomas will come with lollipops and rainbow flags minus any competence in their fields of study.

Jmho.

[SamAdams76]

First the bad news: No matter how well you raise your children, if they go to a typical U.S. college or university, they are extremely likely to become fully indoctrinated and come out of it committed leftists. The pressure in college to conform and the incredible hostility that any conservative viewpoint will be met with (by both fellow students AND faculty) is usually too much for all but the very strongest people to endure. It may even come to pass that your "educated" children will be so brainwashed after the college experience that they effectively disown their conservative minded parents for the remainder of their lives.

Did I get your attention? Good!

The good news is that most people do not need the four years of college to have a successful life. What they need is to learn a specialty, a trade or a profession.

I never went to college but I outearn my college-educated peers by a wide margin (on the averages and the means).

I went into the military after high school and learned electronics. After my service, I immediately found work in the electronics (now high tech) industry. In my early years of working, I not only made a decent salary but I was also able to start funding my 401k and was able to use tuition-reimbursement to take essential college courses at night for practically free. I never earned a "degree" to hang on my wall but I did get college courses in accounting, economics, business administration, and technical writing on the company dime. I also was able to take certification courses (such as A+, MCSE) on the company dime.

So in my adult years, I never had to learn how to make lattes at Starbucks for just over minimum wage, like so many college grads do today! I just plunged into my profession at the entry levels, getting the necessary certifications and college level courses done on my own time and on the company's dime.

No student loans to pay off and steady work with increasing pay since my early 20s. Don't let anybody tell you that college is necessary to be successful. Quite the opposite.

Lastly, never stop learning!