[ThisLittleLightofMine]

What about the influence that a humanities class on your child, this is my only major concern, that they will brainwash my 15 year old. I've audited some classes and I am amazed at the liberal garbage that pours out of the "professors".

[Kevin OMalley]

A couple of visits to Free Republic will wipe out that liberal brainwashing. Don't worry. ;-)

[Max Combined]

"What about the influence that a humanities class on your child"

Out daughter was already well versed in religion before she went to the local community college. She was homeschooled and religion and math were the major subjects everyday. I told her not to argue with the liberal professors, but not to believe the liberal B.S. either. I told her that if she ever had any questions about whether any of the liberal stuff was true, to just ask me and I would tell her the truth. She did have several liberal professors, but in community colleges the professors are not all that smart, so it was easy for her to see through most of their nonsense.

I would be more worried about her picking up liberal notions from her professors at Rice, since they are some smart folks who can make that liberal stuff seem like the best thing since sliced bread, but she is a chemical engineering major, and there is no time to discuss Marxism in thermodynamics. Also, most of her fellow engineering students are not very political. My daughter did tell me that she was one of the few students at Rice who admitted to voting for Bush this past fall, but she and I both just enjoyed the liberals' misery.

[dawn53]

I agree about Humanities. We've waited till now for him to take his Humanities req., so he'll be almost 17 when taking it. The 2nd 3 hours of the Humanities req was filled by a History of Music course, or something like that.

The good thing about being at home and taking classes is that you can "deprogram" the garbage that they are fed by liberal profs.

So far, one of his favorite profs, was his Comp I and II prof, and he was a liberal, but was all for a good debate. In taking his College Placement Test they placed him in an Honors Comp class and it was run more like a discussion group than a lecture. Lots of liberal garbage discussed, but my son seemed to enjoy the debate, expressed conservative views in his papers, and it didn't affect his grade.

Also, wore Bush/Cheney paraphenalia this past year and got into some spiritued discussions (you had to give a persuasive speech in his speech class on why you supported a candidate...his prof hated Bush, but my son gave a speech about why he supported Bush and got one of the only A's in the class...easy reason why, those supporting Kerry had no real basis for their support, thus no logical points). He was offended when they wouldn't let him participate in the Presidential straw poll in one class because he wasn't old enough to vote.

I was concerned at first, but am so glad he was home at the time he was taking these classes so his dad and I could discuss the issues raised with him.