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September 5, 2010 - 7:25 am - by Roger Kimball
Tex Taylor
2010-09-06 10:20:48

Great article Roger…and addressed one of my biggest pet peeves.

Personal story: two daughters – one at Texas A&M on the way to medical school; one at University of Tulsa (private). Both never saw a public school K-12 which ma and pa forked over about $250K. I have no idea if academically it was work it, but I do know that the quality of parent made it worthwhile.

I didn’t know a thing about Texas A&M four years ago. In fact, it was my suggestion for my daughter to visit the UT and instead she somehow she ended up at A&M. I have been thoroughly impressed with her preparation for medical school and it showed when she took the MCAT. More so, there’s been no indoctrination of American hating, liberal propaganda, or rewrite of history best I can tell. My oldest appears to have kept her conservative bearings, and I would highly recommend A&M to any parent.

My youngest at TU is thinking maybe Physician’s Assistant – doesn’t want to go the medical school route, but likes the material. I estimate the yearly tuition for TU is somewhere between $35-40K and I’m too lazy to look it up.

This semester mom and dad got to pay about $3K for a “women’s studies” class which was required (that price included the scholarship offset). The rest of the classes were questionable too, sprinkled with one biology course. I think the women’s studies class is a requirement for the B.A. in Misandry.

If this is an indicator for the private school education across the nation, I can see where parents would be a little disgruntled about the bang for the buck. I know I was a little miffed before mom dropped the hammer and I shut up.

Did I mention TU is very proud of the fact they just built a mosque on campus under the guise of “diversity”? I guess we get to pay for that too.