College is a scam!

[kpmom]

This was posted on a Christian Homeschooling site I lurk on.

 

The OP had some, uh, strong opinions on college for her children (satan's greatest achievement-the American university). I will give most of the responders credit. They are conservative Christian women, but most disagreed with her, some very sharply.

 

chfweb.com/index.php?t=msg&th=79820&start=0&S=5967183376b890a0f378369802f2e76e

 

ETA: Apparently this poster also thinks proper capitalization is also a scam.

[lilah]

Proper puncutation, is also "a scam".

One of the responses is great, she pointed out that college is a time for questioning and doubt and some people adopt religion and others cast it off.

[JMarie]

From one of the responses:

PS....I write this after about a year of coming to terms with leaving an unsaved child of mine solely in the hands of God. I don't know what his future holds, but I know I can only do what God has called me to do. And that only God can change his heart. I honestly try to not think about his future too much

I wonder if this is how a fundy family would refer to an adult child who has converted to another religion (perhaps for marriage?).

[2xx1xy1JD]

Many of the responses were intelligent.

I've had similar conversations. My thoughts are that while I would ideally look for a fairly positive university environment (I'm not funding a party school), I know that there will be hostile elements. Part of my job as a parent is preparing my child to deal with that, so that they are prepared for those challenges.

I wouldn't say that university taught me how to think - I went to a public high school that was somewhat alternative/libertarian, which really taught me that. What it did teach me was how to find and defend my views when bombarded by extreme viewpoints. It was a setting that upset my equilibrium, and it wasn't possible to look around that figure out what was "normal" based on the views of everybody else. I had to dig deep and figure it out myself.

The ironic thing is that I was pretty left-wing and not that religious when I entered university. I became more conservative and religious partly in reaction to the completely bonkers off-the-map variety of socialism that I encountered, which was quite different than the pretty mild version that I associated with my mother and grandmother.