I'd hate to go to the college that answers these questions "correctly."

I don’t often tread over to redstate.com, but I did today for some inexplicable reason. There, on their front page (I won’t link to it...don’t need to give them the clicks, thankyouverymuch), there was an article written by Mike Adams, published today, titled “Questions for College Preview Day”

Given that my son is now a college freshman and my daughter is a junior, and the recency of having gone through the whole application process is still fresh in my mind, I read Mr. Adam’s piece.

Now, I do understand that there is a different worldview promulgated over there at Redstate, but what I don’t think I totally understood was their antipathy towards higher education.  Here are the 14 questions he believes every prospective college student should ask professors and administrators so that they “know what they are getting into.”

1. Does this university protect free speech?
2. If your answer to the previous question is “yes” then can you tell me whether the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (www.TheFIRE.org) has agreed and thus given the university a green light rating signifying that it has no policies abridging free expression?
3. Does this university respect due process?
4. If your answer to the previous question is “yes” then can you tell me whether the university has a specific policy allowing students legal representation in suspension and expulsion hearings?
5. Has this university ever been successfully sued for violating the First Amendment?
6. Has this university ever been successfully sued for falsely convicting a student of a crime, including, but not limited to, sexual assault?
7. Does this university promote diversity?
8. If your answer to the previous question is “yes” then can you provide me the names of some conservative professors teaching in your department?
9. Could you also provide the names of some Christian professors teaching in your department?
10. What is the average starting salary of students who graduate with a degree from your department?
11. What is the average federal loan debt of students who graduate with a degree from your department?
12. Would you recommend that your own son or daughter attend this university?
13. Would you recommend that your own son or daughter pursue a major offered by your department?
14. If you answered, “yes” to either of the two previous questions then would you agree to co-sign on your child’s student loan?

Please note, that I intended to read his list with an open mind, but by the time I got to question #3, I suspected that this wasn’t an honest list. And when I hit #9, I lost my lid. Indeed, in his continued essay, Mr. Adams gives away the game when he writes:

Things were bad enough when parents used to save up money in order to send their kids to college. When they did so they often ended up spending more on each child’s college education than anything they purchased in their lives – with the sole exception being their home purchase. Yet they found that they were punished for their investment. Their children would often leave church and rebel against their parents after four years with their leftist professors. Indeed, many parents would find that the greatest cost of their children’s education was seeing them come to hate everything their parents had taught them – and, indeed, sometimes coming to hate their parents, too.
 

bolding mine.

He goes on to tell you that it’s the Federal Government’s fault for tempting children into going to college by offering grants and loans. 

We could talk all day about the questions, and I do hope there are comments made below that do just that, but I wanted to add my own comment that I think some folks on the Right are too far gone to try to bring back into the fold. Free thinking = liberal ideas = death of religion and comity. This man is having trouble letting go of his son or daughter because he fears they will be indoctrinated into hating him.

Perhaps he has a point. Perhaps his ideas are worth running away from. I know my nephew hated that his dad was an ultra-conservative. It caused friction years ago that exist to this day. But poisoning the idea that going to college is good for you and good for society is a bridge too far. How is the United State to dig itself out of a continuing moral and technical slide if we can’t educate our children to advance human knowledge?

Your thoughts on the questions?