There are good schools for good girls
Attention, parents with young women contemplating college picks:
Read this excellent piece in the WSJ by Ashley Samelson on healthy alternatives to campus jungles.
God bless Hillsdale!
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Never too early to start looking. Especially since I will be helping to pay for all student loans. And bank bailouts. And Acorn. Sigh.
Hillsdale has a great reputation and it’s nice to know that there are still good schools out there. Note – Hillsdale does not accept any government funds.
IIRC, they don’t accept government loans because they didn’t like the strings that came along with them. That’s more evidence of the conservatism.
They do however, loan their own money at a fair rate.
It can be done without government.
As the mother of a very young daughter, it is encouraging to know that there are still places where woman can learn in a healthy environment.
Michigan , huh….
My son is 16 and soon to be choosing a college.
Thanks for this story and CONGRATS to a school with some morals and integrity.
Yes. Mine is still many years away from college, but I’ll keep Hillsdale on the radar screen for future reference. We’re also doing our best at home to teach and reinforce in our children Godly morals and discernment to help them combat our worldly culture.
At a college reunion not too long ago, I actually had a vicious, then-lesbian, angry feminist apologize to me for her hatred and boorish behavior while we were in college. She hated me for playing football, thought all us jocks were rapists, and said so every chance she got. Turns out she married a devout Packer fan.
Then there were the women who allowed themselves to be used at the parties. Real sweet ladies with real big self esteem issues. I liked them better than the angry fems, but not for the reasons you’d think.
Sadly my daughter looks like she will never go to college. She is bipolar, in trouble with the law, and massively self destructive. Her first pregnancy scare was at age 11. She used to do things like cut herself and smear the blood all over the wall. She drinks, uses drugs and destroys anything that gets in her way. She has accused almost all of her boyfreinds of rape and only has not accused me because I found her note saying she would do this. Her next court date is monday and by this time next week she will probably be in jail or a pshyce ward. She is 16. I can only hope she will change but she will probably never see hilldale. So when you tennager gives you a little lip, remeber it can be much much much worse. Insteed of throwing words at you he/she could be throwing knives (been there).
Thanks for listening to my rant….
They have a free newsletter that my family has received for years now.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/subs_new.asp
And, if I may, Michigan is beautiful and cheap! And we could always use a few more conservatives in the voting ranks….
Here’s an Op-Ed from The Cornell Daily Sun Pubic Relations by Crazy Jane (Jane P. Riccobono)
Pubes. They are so annoying, especially if you’re a girl. Every girl has faced the question of how to manage them, and it would be hard to find one who didn’t think the whole subject irritating. None I’ve met even contemplate leaving them au natural. The pubic region, especially the female one, is subject to fashions just like every other aspect of femininity. The difficult part for struggling feminists like myself, is figuring out how to handle your pubic hair in such a way that does not leave you spending too much time, money, and stress just to please a guy. Since waxing and shaving are both, in my experience, unpleasant, I often wonder why I and so many other girls subject ourselves to them. Is there a way to live up to the standards of beauty and still have respect for your personal comfort and wellbeing?
Oh those crazy Ivy Co-Eds. They have it all over the Sarah Palins of the world.
I would love for all my children to go to Hillsdale. Their choices though.
I subscribe to Imprimus, Hillsdale’s monthly newletter. Have for a while. They used to print their motto, Because ideas have consequences, on each issue. True enough.
Most colleges and universities used to be like Hillsdale, but not anymore. Rabid feminism has seen to that. Women degrading women. The feminists will tell you it’s not happening but they know it is. Which is why their support of abortion is so extreme; so this type of activity can go on unabated. If the students have more focus on sexual gratification and imbibing alcohol, rather than learning, it’s easy to fill their mushy brains with the wonders of liberalism.
That’s why the liberals are going after the elementary schools with such fervor. They want liberal indoctrination before they get to colleges like Hillsdale.
sonofdy#8
You have our prayers your daughter recovers or finds some kind of peace within herself. I have a close friend whose daughter was judged to be bipolar simply by the fact she answered a questionnaire at school. Well, this kid was judged (with no further testing) to need immediate medical intervention and placed on a dozen different meds, mandatory counceling, started falling asleep in class, sleeping 12-15 hours on weekends, cutting herself after she went on the meds, etc.. All the classic symtems of severe mental problems.
The kid woke up one morning and made the decision to take herself off the meds, the doc was going to go after the parents legally as unfit because they had the nerve to question his recommendations, but today that young person is in college – doing very well, and wants to become a psychiatrist for emotional teens. So, I’d caution students to be very careful how they answer some of these questions either through the schools or their own doctor’s office. Yes, there are valid reasons for testing, but many are skewed to produce the results placing many kids on Rytalin unneccessarily.
Thank goodness for schools like Hillsdale. Good to know.
symtems/symptems – there is a reason we should proofread or use spellcheck.
If I can just get my teenage daughter past the “I dont want to be known as a nerd or a teachers pet” phase of her life…
I’m seaching for positive (non-victim) female mentors and activities that will keep her off the high school party circuit.
The Salutatorian for my high school was a girl that we had grown up with and thought we all knew. We had no idea how smart or studious she was until they announced our HS rankings a few weeks before we graduated.
Thank you Michelle for this link. I have some nieces
that will be entering college in two and three years. I
have emailed the article to my sisters and brother.
I am so happy to hear that there are alternatives to
these other schools. Peer pressure can be death to
some people, literally.
We see no need to send our kids out of state to college. Mine will be attending our local state college and living at home, or, hopefully, win a scholarship to the Colorado School of Mines and live at home.
I remember my freshman year at college and have seen since how bad high school has become. I will never allow my kids to live in a dorm.
Its all I ever wanted for her. Thanks.
She had all of those WITHOUT medication and refuses to take medication because she believes the doctors are trying to posion her. Including birth control and the last time she thought she was pregnant she couldn’t tell which boy would be the father. (imagine what that did to her mother) Its been a rough ride.
Mental illness is a class a super iron plated bitch on families. I have been tempted many times to leave the family but I stayed for my wife. The sixteen year old is my STEP daughter so even my mother has said I should leave. Its caused 2 major emotional breakdowns for me and more for my wife. And get this, neither me or my wife are on anti-depressants. Seriously, if you want to try something really tough, try rasing a mentaly ill teenage girl. A triathalon has nothing compared.
24klady, thanks…
I wish I could say something more substantial, but I wish you and your daughter the best of luck and peace of mind.
I have friends that were literally lucky to make it out of their teens alive, and eventually they straightened themselves out.
I’ll think of you both in my prayers.
Sonodfy:
My prayers go out to you. Bipolar is a disease that impacts the whole family. I hope that your daughter can get the help she desperately needs.
This too will pass.
Thank you all. Michelle, i really didn’t mean to hijack the thread, I just wish she could go there. As for treatment, she refuses to take any meds including birth control because she thinks it is posion.
A very good friend of mine went to Hillsdale and he seemed to enjoy it very much – he always speaks highly of his time there. Nice to know there are conservative alternatives out there.
Thanfully, I missed a lot of that sort of drama, as I lived at home during college and wasn’t involved in any extra activities – just not really my thing.
I feel for you there. Last week I was picking up my daughter and her friends from an after school activity when another teenage girl (just as cute as could be – nothing odd about her) came running up to us in the school parking lot for a ride “home”.
I said OK, and the girl jumped in.
Over a period of time, I found out a lot about the girl.
She had just jumped the wall from a court-ordered adolescent rehab/psych facility. At 14, she was in for meth. Since meth is not a gateway drug, I asked her what else. She answered coke. Since coke is not a gateway drug, I asked her what else. She answered X…. then she listed off a whole stream of other drugs. Basically the whole pharmacy of rec drugs. She had scars (healed) all over her arms.
And she had been doing it all since 11.
Her “boyfriend” was 22 and in jail for drugs. She knew she was going down for escaping but preferred to go to Juvi rather than rehab.
Once I got back to the rehab facility and talked to the police, it turned out that she didnt jump the fence alone, but had escaped with another boy and he had tried to kill the attendant. The attendant stopped the boy but lost the girl.
I asked her one major question. ‘You’re 14 and you have done it all. So whats your plan? What are you going to do at 16 or 18 or 21?’
Michelle,
Thank you for posting this. I had heard very positive things about Wheaton before, but this post has put “Hillsdale” on my radar.
I am becoming very despondent over the way young ladies are becoming socialized to think about themselves (ie: the Cornell “pubic relations is a case in point — since when did “feminism” embody spending “time, money and stress to pleae a guy” — doesn’t that viewpoint defeat the point of “feminism”) and how they now tear each other down. This isn’t “liberation”.
sonofdy, you and your daughter will be in my prayers tonight. I have a brother that was much like your daughter. I watched my parents go through hell with him. Once I even had to have him committed because he was strung out on Meth, thought he was God and tried to kill our mother. The good news is 25 years later, my brother is a functioning member of society thanks to God, good meds and time. Stay strong. I hope you have many hands to hold as you go thru this journey.
Sonofdy, I’ll add you and your daughter to my prayer list.
My 5 year old son is autistic. I have high hopes that he’ll recover to some extent. I hope he’ll be able to go to college.
My wife asked my step-daughter that once. Sarah answered street whore. That devastated my wife.
There is alot of mental illness on my wifes side, we have 2 autistic relatives and they are both good people. Maybe this is why I relate to Palin because of her newest son.
My baby sister just started at Hillsdale. She’s loving it, and it’s great to see my parents at peace with her choice, not worrying about her every minute. And, to top it off, her loans, from Hillsdale, are simple interest loans, her debt load is going to be tiny when she graduates.
There are several good, smaller schools out there. You just have to know where to look. Like NR’s education issue. I graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in CA. Another really good school.
Just in case I miscatagorized what I was trying to say – she loves being a closet nerd.
A friend of hers spent the night last night (I helped out another single dad that was traveling). When I asked the friend the same kinds of homework questions that I ask my daughter, the friend’s eyes glazed over.
My daughter lectured her, “You cant ignore him, he doesnt go away or give up until you have the right answer”
Baiscally my rules are:
) Learn it the first time and you dont have to learn it again the second time.
) If you have done homework on a subject and taken a test for it, then at any time during the school year, that topic is fair game for me to ask you questions about it. If you dont know the answer, then you will learn it again.
We’ve already been on the campuses of four major colleges over the last couple of months, even though she doesnt know what that means yet.
Common Sense wrote:
As a former RA (Resident Advisor) I can tell you that living in a dorm can be one of the best things for a college student. It allows them to get connected to campus, learn how to be more independent, and most importantly really learn more about themselves and what they can accomplish. Yes, dorms and colleges can be crazy places. But they can also be positively transformative. I have seen it first hand.
I hope you let your children decide what is best for them when the time comes. That’s really what it should be all about.
Okay, off my soap box. I just needed to get that off my chest.
::sigh:: yeh, I have to deal with Insane Clown Posse and Emo everyday
(for those out of the know those are derivitives of ‘The Cure’, Goth and Columbine, but are not the same)
I think tat one of the indicators that can be used to determine the campus attitude is the presence or absence of co-ed dorms. My daughter, a Hillsdale freshman, applied only to schools that did not have co-ed dorms. I’m glad to read that her sense is good.
Lol! My daughter picked Cornell, but fortunately didn’t write the perverted rant above.
The funny thing is, the only reason we looked at Cornell when we were looking at schools out east (we live in WY) is because Ann Coulter went there. 
That saying, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, is very true. She was ultra conservative going in and remains that way as she is starting her senior year.
Michelle, she met you when the College Republicans had you in. It was a real highlight — riding along taking you back to the airport. She even snapped a picture of a stupid liberal sign with her camera and emailed it to you at your request, and you posted it on your blog.
I think it was 2005 – 2006 school year?
Good times good times.
Yeah, that’s the problem. See any post Michelle has made about the mandatory leftist indoctrination programs from the ResLife department at Delaware, where kids had to meet one-on-one with RAs to talk about sex and “social justice” and kids from conservative backgrounds were singled out for extra “education.”
Cornell (besides being Ivy League) has one of the most beautiful campuses that I have seen – and I’ve seen quite of few. Good choice by your daughter. I just hope she doesn’t get brainwashed by New York liberals. I HATE it when that happens to good people from Wyoming.
My collie says:
sonofdy, my husband is manic depressive. I’ll never understand why they want us to say bi-polar. Manic depressive is sooooo much more descriptive. It is an extremely hard disease to fight without drugs.
You have my empathy. My husband refuses medication but I sure have needed it.
sonofdy:
My niece is bi-polar and it’s been a rough road for both her and her parents. She was also diagnosed in high school and went on the medication which helped her. She managed to graduate from high school and then college.
Recently, she decided to live with her then boyfriend, another bi-polar sufferer. About a week or so ago, he decided to no longer take his meds and just was all over the place. He quit his job, bought a gun, and his days were spent at the range. Now this is according to my liberal brother-in-law, my niece’s father, so I’m not sure how much salt to sprinkle to that comment.
Anyway, he became very erratic and finally my niece decided to move out and stay at a friend’s place. He packed up all his stuff and moved out west to live with his sister. If anything, this should be a lesson for those suffering from mental illness not to take themselves off of medication…. especially in severe circumstances.
My prayers are with you sonofdy. Keep your chin up and rely heavily on either your friends, neighbors, and family, or a support group. It will keep you sane.