The Washington Post ran this article, School turned him liberal. His mom loves Fox News, this weekend. It describes an all too familiar situation in families thorughout this country. The indoctrination of young people when they go to college. What is indoctrination? As defined by Oxford Languages, indoctrination is the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. When you think of American colleges today, what comes to mind? Institutions of higher education where various opinions on various topics are seen, discussed, debated and analyzed. Or, a place where certain points of view are censored, sometimes violently, so that no beliefs system other than the one being taught can be critically reviewed. Realistically, it is the later. Which coincidentally, matches the definition of indoctrination perfectly. The decades old culture war has as its objectives to destroy marriage, the family and basic American values. American colleges have been doing this for 60 years. Public universities suffer from demonstrated cultures of timidity when it comes to sharing ideas that stand to the right of the prevailing academic regime. Everyone with a child in college, and in the 21st century, anyone with a child in K-12 schools knows what their children are being taught to believe. C'mon man. In this WaPo article they talk about mom's views and that she loves FoxNews. Isn't that giving the child a balanced set of views? Yes, her views are and have been presented to her son, up until he turned 18. And that is the strategy. Get the child away from home, after they have become aware of the world, and indoctrinate them. It works best on young women, but young men fall prey, too. Primarily because they will do whatever it takes to get the attention of a young woman. This is not isolated, it happens everyday across the country to the heartache of parents. The fact that it is a trend indicates something other than liberal arts education is taking place. The fact that only one way of thinking is allowed and no dissenting political views are allowed on most college campuses, indicates something other than liberal arts education is taking place. Can a conservative speaker come on a college campus to discuss any issue of the day? No, protests break out and the person cannot be protected and is cancelled. The fact that students leave college with polar opposite political viewpoints than they wen tin with indicates something other than a broad political education is taking place. Coupled with the recent occurrence of college students protesting colleges across the country about Israel's response to a violent and brutal attack by the terrorist group, Hamas, on it's people, indicates that something other than a balanced view of history and the world is taking place. This is more than a small human interest story. This is a revolutionary issue that must be addresses. What should we do? 1. Take your kids out of the government K-12 education system. 2. Find colleges where liberal arts education still exists, like Hillsdale College. This is very hard to do. K-12 alternatives (private schools) are expensive or demand your time (homeschooling). College alternatives at this point are extremely limited. 3. Consider that maybe college is not the best option for your child at age 18. Maybe the military, the peace corp, other volunteer work for a year may give your child the rounding experience they need. Then possibly consider what they are good at or like. Trades are in need of people now and the pay is very good. We have more kids graduating college than we have jobs. Isolate the jobs of the future and find a smaller school to provide that training. The knee jerk reaction of sending you kids to college so they can get higher paying jobs has been subverted and is no longer as valuable as it once was. Here are a few articles which discuss this issue further. Putting Public Colleges on a Path to Privatization Indoctrination vs education Alarming study shows how effective colleges are at indoctrinating students Professor warns liberal colleges are 'indoctrinating' kids the myth of academic indoctrination the myth of woke indoctrination how California colleges indoctrinate students Admit it, American colleges do indoctrinate students we couldn't indoctrinate students if we wanted to

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