American colleges and universities are more hostile today than ever toward those who don’t embrace progressive ideology.
More and more, sending your kids off to college is like paying big bucks to take them to an outrageously overpriced restaurant despite knowing that you’re going to get food poisoning, and despite knowing that the waitstaff are going to try to make your kids hate you.
Why on earth do we keep doing it? Well, because our kids need to show the receipt for that terrible dining experience to prospective employers if they want to land a job. It’s madness.
Things aren’t getting any better at the academy, either. In fact, they’re getting worse. Eric Kaufmann ought to know. He’s a professor of politics at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and a board member at an organization called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
As Kaufmann writes in The Wall Street Journal, “Academic freedom is in crisis on American campuses. Last year, the National Association of Scholars recorded 65 instances of professors being disciplined or fired for protected speech, a fivefold increase from the year before.”
I’ve often said, a couple of my friends that I ran with in school dropped out in the eighth grade. I don’t regret hanging in the classroom and it doesn’t happen all the time. But the two went on to work with one ending up with a great job, and one had a lucrative business. This was in the sixties, and both are living real large now as they were then.
DEFUND THEM!! SCHOOL VOUCHERS
College and University “receipts” have been actually frowned upon for years now. At best, it just shows how much sh!t a person stayed around to take before vomiting their way out into the workforce.
Hey, that’s on them who pay for it. Academics live in a bubble. It’s a culture all to itself. Sad.