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Are taxpayers funding academic institutions to indoctrinate our kids? That disturbing and irresistible question plagued me during the long drive home last week from college orientation. I doubt I am alone in this wake-up call.
Like many other women, I just sent my youngest child to college. I am so proud of him and his decision to join the Army ROTC and study engineering. He will be attending a revered Virginia institution known for its military Corps of Cadets program.
The centerpiece of the campus is the military parade field featuring beautiful pylons bearing the school’s founding principles: words such as “honor,” “duty,” “brotherhood,” and “ut prosim” (that I may serve). The war memorial also bears the names of all known cadets who have given their lives for our nation since World War I.
Established in 1872, Virginia Tech has an honorable and proud tradition in my home state, and its graduates are some of the most accomplished and wonderful people I know. Hokies shine around our nation as leaders and as a great credit to their school. I know many to be people of faith, and many, many are conservative.
The Madness Begins
Because of this, I was shocked to experience what I can only describe as extreme and overtly leftist propaganda spewed at our children’s orientation. The opening “University Welcome” event for students and parents separated families immediately in the auditorium.
Nobody expected the event to begin with prayer or the Pledge of Allegiance — heavens, no! But one might expect to remember the names of fallen cadets on the pylons or the 32 dead and 17 injured in the 2007 shooting on Virginia Tech’s campus, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Nope. Instead, the administration made the stunning choice to open orientation by recognizing two Native American tribes on whose land the college was built (with the implication that it was stolen).
What followed went from slightly bothersome to downright alarming. The college filled the next two hours with speaker after speaker who introduced themselves with not just their names and titles but also preferred pronouns — as in, “Hi my name is Penny Nance, and I identify as she and her.” At first, parents were slightly surprised; by the end, they were mad.
Every person on the stage looked exactly as you would expect them to identify. At that point, I noticed all the new students’ badges contained not just their names but also their preferred pronouns because the school had made it part of registration. The heavy-handed diversity lecture that followed seemed rather tame in comparison. Parents left the venue in shock. more
And you all just left your kids there?
Thats some rock solid parenting.
They should have talked about the shooting there, saying that “We don’t allow guns here because we have the police to protect us, who left after two people were killed because they thought the shooter was gone — but went on to kill the other 30 people after the police left.”
“Parents left the venue in shock.”
they’re going to be in an even greater shock in 4 years, when little Nimrod comes home to ‘appropriate; the basement in the name of the ‘collective’ & starts preaching to them that they own to him/her/it, after all, they destroyed the world & we only have 12 years left
Thanks a lot, parental units!
Read this, as it was a main feature in my local paper, basically next door to vpi. Sadly, her son is likely toast after her editorial.
I’d of raised my hand and asked – “And WHAT does any of this crap hafta do with my son’s Mechanical Engineering degree program?! Please take your crap down the road to UVA.” 😡
“Hi, my name is Quincy, I’m a fucking faggot.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WE9HBqL5g
@BFH – excellent imagery and choice of art subject.
So pull you kid out, what is so difficult about that. Leaving your kid in means they win.
Army & Engineering, A winning combo!
Best of luck to your fine young man MJ.
Send them to tech or trade school…cheaper and zero leftist garbage indoctrination, plus an actual relevant job afterwards.
My eldest niece graduated Va Tech 2017. Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech.
I viewed it online live streaming. She spent the entire speech talking about “resilience” in coming to grips with the death of her husband.
How uplifting college grads…. “I’m here today to send you off with encouragement and well wishes for a productive and satisfying future”.
Instead they suffered 2 hours in a miserable cold drizzle, to hear about death.
Lean In Sheryl, lean in…..NO ONE CARES. Not everything is about you.
I feel for these parents. And the kid. What would be the option at that point. After planning and anticipating and getting accepted and into orientation. What should have been a happy, exciting time. There isn’t a good or realistic option that’s immediate. The article is a start. Now she needs to organize some parents and ride herd on this school as well as keep communications open with her son.
MTSU has completely ruined my only child. She was a studious, polite, Christian young lady with the world at her feet when she entered. Now, she’s a sullen, tattooed Marxist that retweets AOC, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood talking points and has severed all family ties in favor of lgbtq freaks.
Heartbreaking, with my only hope being real life will snap her out of it.
Most people aren’t aware that Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers is heavily involved in directing major foundation funds that influence public school curriculum. He’s been doing it for years, any wonder all schools are infected with this insanity?
There’s for to be a law on books about fairness if you receive public funding.
Most people ARE aware gin blossom. They just don’t care. Ayers, his retired law prof wife Bernadine Dohrn and their “mischief making” fellow Weather Underground members have been revered by the left for decades, and the Right was too timid to push back.
Did anyone seriously think they’re teaching Civics?
I am currently in Face Book prison so i can’t share this article. This is nothing new. Communists, inspired by satan, started targeting children when Marx, with help from his gay lover, published the Communist Manifesto. The author is delirious if she think demonKKKrats running demonKKKrats states would ever stop their demonKKKrat run schools of mentally raping children. I hate it when people complain about demonKKKrats doing evil things then willingly subject themselves to the demonKKKrats. That is how the demonKKKrats win. Every college in every demonKKKrat state will be a coven of the devil run by servants of the devil if you send your child there expect what will happen otherwise spend your money at a Christian or conservative school.