Looking For a Nice Safe Community with a Fairly Conservative College

12.07.02 | mlmr

[mlmr]

I am looking for a safe, conservative community for my family. I live in the middle of liberal La-la land and homeschool my children. There are some changes in our lives and I now have to work and the children need to be in schools. They are not going to be quite as supervised or protected as before and I need to provide a safe community for them. I have a gifted and talented daughter who could take college courses. I have three younger children who I need to place in good public or Christian schools. Safety and conservative culture are two major factors here. Any input from Freepers would be gratefully received.

[thucydides]

Take a look at Hillsdale College in Michigan.

[TxBec]

somewhere in central Texas (in a small town).. Baylor University in Waco.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Have you thought about having her take college courses on the net?

If I had to do it over again today I never would have gone to a college, I would have taken courses over the internet.

You should research it.

[mlmr]

Is Hillsdale in a small community?

[mlmr]

The towns are nice? Good values?

[TopDog2]

Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana

[mlmr]

She works at home now. We researched the local private highschools. Even the best were incredibly vulgar. The local christian schools are good in the lower grades but the highschools are not at all competitive. The local state universtiy has courses and welomes homeschoolers but I am not sure that I am ready to let a 13 year old face all that leftist victim malarky.

[Walkingfeather]

ABILENE TEXAS, I myself live in SO.cal. ( IT looks nothing like it I assure you) If You need to move to a community with good schools, CHEAP housing, and a Christian community around Abilen Christian University should do. But do not expect it to look pretty. Matter of fact think of it as going into the wilderness.... but if you are doing it for your kids it won't matter.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

NOT Northwestern, I repeat, NOT Northwestern. God Bless, Good Luck

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

How about Grove City, PA?

They have a good Christian school and a college that is top-nothch academically and if not the only college in the country, one of 2 or 3 schools that takes no federal money, and therefore has no constaints on being openly Christian. Kids use the Bible as a reference for something other than trying to discredit it, as is the case at most institutions of higher education in this nation today. Graduates are highly valued by recruiters. Plus it is considered one of the best values for the price.

[fightin kentuckian]

Might want to check out BYU for the ultimate in conservative schools however, SLC doesn't fit in with the small town atmosphere. Of course there is also Ricks in Idaho.

In Kentucky there are two liberal arts colleges that are strictly work study with good a good rep for academics and small town atmosphere, Allice LLoyd College in Pippa Passes and Berea College in Berea Ky

[mlmr]

My children are bi-racial, black... will they fit? I think of us as Christians, first...not all people do though.

[mlmr]

Not Northwestern...got it!!LOL

[mlmr]

I have heard of Grove City College. It is actually a community?? Any Grove City people out there who can tell me more?

[Quick Shot]

Tiny, and a decent drive to big towns like Jackson.

[TxBec]

I think they do..beautiful area too.. and Texas is a great state for homeschooling. They pretty much leave us alone.

[mlmr]

Is Ricks also LDS?

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

BTW: The town of Grove City is very quaint, conservative and charming...a mix of rural flavor and college town...yet only an hour from Pittsburgh by Interstate.

[Ace's Dad]

Alma College in Alma MI. Lived there most of the year taking care of terminally ill mother. Good schools, good health care, infrastructure, nice selection of wine in the local supermarket. Calls itself Scotland USA, for good reason. All ranges of housing available. People are friendly to newcomers. Wide range of churches. Airport. Be aware the Northern Lower Peninusula of Micigan has winter. Not the South in that respect.

Regards, Avery,
Any questions, E-mail me at abloucks@aol.com P.S. I don't live there anymore, moved to the Florida Keys. :)