Conservative at liberal college tips??

zoosermom
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:55:27 +0000

My son is a conservative on a liberal campus. His school received some press last year for some silliness on the left-leaning political spectrum. His experience has been that the professors are much more respectful and open-minded of other views, while being almost uniformly very liberal. He feels that he’s learned a lot from their different and respectful points of view. We consider that a wonderful benefit. However, the students are less respectful and much more dramatic. Part of being young, so no harm. There is one professor who is very aggressively, disrespectfully liberal. I know this to be true because part of the orientation process was for the parents to take a class with that professor, which happened on the day the results of the Brexit vote were announced. So I know from personal experience how he is. I’m not sure I would have been comfortable in his class, but my son went to office hours, tailored his work to the professor’s preferences, and never let it be known in that semester that he thought the professor was too much. His grade was excellent. He had the professor again for a different class and felt comfortable enough to be a bit more open. Big mistake. Most of the grade in that class was for a semester-long group project. The project was excellent. My son was the only out conservative in the group and his grade was lower than everyone else’s in the group, and he was absolutely aware that the professor spoke to him differently after making his different opinion known. This particular man is just rabidly opposed to the presence of people who don’t agree with him existing in the world. But in no way reflects upon the profession or anyone else. He’s just a jerk. There are such in the world and one must learn to deal.