My kids can go to any college they want — but I won’t pay for Harvard or Columbia
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My kids can go to any college they want — but I won’t pay for Harvard or Columbia
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Should your kids go to Harvard? Many parents have their doubts — and liberals seem to be shocked.
Last week Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made the question go viral.
Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, in a clip from their YouTube series about their family’s travels, were seen discussing whether their teen daughter Paloma should apply to Harvard University, in light of the importance of their Catholic faith and the values they’ve instilled in her.
“The idea of dropping her off at a place that would undo all of those things makes me worried,” Campos-Duffy says.
The pushback was immediate: At the Los Angeles Times, Lorraine Ali called the conversation “truly disturbing.”
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On CNN, former Biden administration official Meghan Hays said the conversation was “offensive and a little self-righteous.”
It appeared to be the first time that leftists had encountered the fact that millions of parents — conservative, moderate and even some rational liberals — worry colleges have become indoctrination factories.
But for the rest of us it’s nothing........
