Anne Gassel just took her youngest child to her college orientation. There was nothing at this orientation that she hadn’t encountered at any of the others she had attended. Yet she walked away from this one “with a complete lack of nostalgia for college life.”
There were many reasons for this feeling, Gassel wrote at Missouri Education Watchdog. But the one that stood out to me was the low graduation rate noted by the school her child is attending.
“Of those that graduate with a degree, some will have degrees that prepare them for nothing that is highly valued by society,” Gassel wrote. “I remember last year at a college open house hearing from a young woman who had a degree in women’s studies. She told the parents sitting in the room that she was lucky to get a job with the university. I don’t think she realized how that sounded.”
She added: “Apparently the only thing a women’s studies degree prepares one for is working for a university admissions office to promote that degree to other gullible students.”
Gassel also criticized the “protective cocoon of pseudo real life,” in which schools provide counselors to help students deal with every minor slight they might be subject to. This, of course, does not prepare students for real life, where no such protections exist.
College is a lot different today than even when I was a student (which was just a few years ago). Now the “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” crowds run the campuses. My fear is of what will happen when these precious snowflakes who need counseling after hearing a different viewpoint get into the real world. Will they accept that they can’t avoid opposing views? Or will they fight to make everyone else kowtow to their beliefs?
