My son is a senior in high school, and he has taken two semesters of community college this year. I have not been impressed. It is less expensive then a four year school, but even that has been a strain on our budget. The books are unreasonable expensive and honestly some of the teachers barely use them so I am not sure why I had to spend over $300 each semester purchasing them. The amount of debt that we take for granted to go to college is unreasonable. Why do we expect our youth to start their lives with this kind of debt? Will many get jobs that will enable them to pay the debt off and to purchase their first house or even live in an apartment? I know of many who have to live with mom and dad after school. What a way to start their adulthood! I know it works for some and that is fine, but for many it is difficult and a strain on relationships to have to go home half adult and half child.
Next, I have noticed the change in my son, he loved the idea of going to college, being challenged and learning at a higher level. He was excited! He is not anymore! He found some of the classes to be a challenge, he enjoyed hearing different points of view and the conversations... and then it occurred to him, he was alone in his thoughts in class. He alone was patriotic in American History part one, he alone accepted Bible as historical truth or even relevant in Ancient History and he alone was socially and financially conservative. So much for a sharing of thoughts. He was the only home educated student there... were these values lost on everyone else? He was sure they were lost on some of his professors/teachers! They verbally devalued America every chance they could, they skewed history on occasion to make a point and they promoted a radical liberal/progressive agenda even when it had nothing to do with the class. (In my opinion many were not even professional, canceling class with little notice and having classes where NO teaching was being done, just watching a movie that was offered by the school that did not have anything to do with the class) I paid my very hard earned money for a product and was receiving sub-par work from them. My son enjoyed the unexpected days off and is not nearly as bugged as I am... of course I paid for the classes! To us it is not the 3 credits at the end of the semester, but the education that we were paying for.
Okay so this is a 2 year school, a state subsidized school, but I honestly expected better... My son has decided not to go to college next year... well not a traditional college, but a school for mission work. He has decided that the debt, the selling out, and the experience was not worth it. I support his decision! I know that with God first he will always make his way. We are not all destined to be wealthy, although if it is God's will he could be, we are not all destined to be "normal" or to "conform" and I am so glad he has decided not to. I look to the strength and determination of those who know this world is temporary and that they are to make it better for others not for just themselves and I see a bit of my son in that. I am proud that my son is a college drop out after two semesters... he is doing it for all the right reasons!
Maybe one day, I will feel differently, but today I am proud! I hope that for those who chose liberal arts as a field of study they will find a different experience then we have found and I am sure it is very different for Science and Technology majors, but in the world of Liberal Arts... we have been disappointed with our experience.
Matthew 10:28 KJV
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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