I don't get preachy or make speeches on controversial issues here, but I wanted to share something about sending your children to college.

My daughter, Emily, graduated in May and will be going to Grove City College (GCC) in PA in the fall.  I've been reading the GCC's student newspaper for several months (BTW, reading the student newspaper is an excellent way to learn more about a college.)

GCG recently held a conference on Faith, Freedom and Higher Education. I wished I could have attended when I read some of my favorite speakers were there including Michael Medved and Walter Williams. I thought homeschool parents might be interested in reading part of the report on the conference. I found this paragraph beginning on page 2:

In his welcoming remarks Dr Paul Kengor, professor of political science...noted: "If parents only knew the true intentions of many educators to whom they turn over their money and their children. The late Richard Rorty, philospher and devout atheist, argued that secular professors like himself need to 'arrange things' so that incoming students who enter college ' as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists' will 'leave college with views more like our own.' Rorty was bracingly candid in his message to parents: 'We are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.'..."In short, the American university is nothing like it once was; it has arguably lost its soul."

To read the entire story titled "Center Hosts Education Conference", go to: http://www.gcc.edu/UserFiles/File/news/collegian/042409Collegian.pdf

This story confirms why I am so grateful for homeschooling and grateful that colleges like Grove City still exist! (and that Emily was accepted! :-) )

If you care to, scroll down the link  http://www.gcc.edu/UserFiles/File/news/collegian/042409Collegian.pdf to page 13 where a student writes an editorial titled

"Who will raise your children? A brief defense of homeschooling."

There is hope!