<p>It’s likely that some PHC graduates have been accepted at some regionally accredited graduate schools, and have qualified for professional licenses in some fields in some states. It’s also likely that other PHC graduates have been denied admission to some graduate schools, and have been ruled ineligible for professional licenses, because of accreditation issues.</p>
<p>“The fact that it is not accredited by some organization does not necessarily mean that the Patrick Henry student will not be accepted by other colleges. The article states plainly and clearly that GRADUATES of this college go on to attend some of the best graduate schools in the country. So this issue is moot.”</p>
<p>“Some” could be two – ever – so the issue is hardly “moot.”</p>
<p>The place sounds like a glossier version of Bob Jones U.</p>
<p>Sure, they’re putting people into federal government jobs these days. Under this administration so is BJU, Pat Robertson’s law school and Oral Roberts.</p>
<p>We’ll see how well their students do when there isn’t an ideologically sympatico administration that’s willing to bend over backwards to place their graduates.</p>
<p>One home schooled kid with perfect SATs does not a real university make.</p>
<p>We had a kid who was in at Brown go to Wayne St.(and not due to $$$). I don’t get every decision.</p>
<p>But yes, I do think this kid is stupid(or his parents are). I can hold the absolute strongest beliefs in my faith, and commitment to those beliefs at Harvard, Stanford, or any other school. Even the ‘wierd’ ones like Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and so on. To exclude yourself from the rest of society contradicts the largest benefit of college. Obviously, in the end people make their own lives, so there will be successful students, especially when you get smart people.</p>
<p>Their debating skills and other acolades are very impressive. So I can’t completely laugh of the school, but I have major problems with any school that intentionally limits the scope of learning.</p>
<p>Does anyone else figure that all of these kids getting Washington/political internships are probably among the staff of various Southern Baptist representatives and not well dispersed among the more moderate politicians?</p>
<h2>Graduate school policies vary widely. However, “the best graduate schools in the country” are, almost without exception, regionally accredited, and they will normally prefer – and in some cases demand – regionally accredited degrees for admission. </h2>
<p>The article states this :</p>
<p>“Many PHC graduates have gone on to prestigious graduate schools, including Harvard Law, and presently hold positions in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court, the FBI, National Geographic, Fox News and throughout the intelligence community, to name a few.”</p>
<p>Note the word — “Many”. This isn’t just a single individual who made it.</p>
<p>Also note PHC’s student’s ability to engage the best universities in the world in debate and WIN. They’ve beaten Oxford University twice and captured back to back national moot court champioships. If they were just a backwater college, why would a world renown university like Oxford take them seriously enough to engage them in serious intellectual exchange ? This isn’t excluding yourself from society by any stretch. Excluding yourself means isolation and not engaging students from other schools and the ideas they hold. PHC students and faculty are obviously NOT doing that.</p>
<p>Note, learning can be done in many different ways. You can be TAUGHT WHAT AND WHY YOU BELIEVE AS YOU DO and why that belief is true and then be taught opposing beliefs and why you should reject them. And you can also be taught to ENGAGE opposing beliefs and examine them by REASONING. Debates are one way of doing that and it is a very valuable learning experience. Hence, I do not see PHC students as being LIMITED in this sense. They are in fact being EXPOSED to other ideas even while they are being taught why these ideas are not worth accepting.</p>
<p>Also note the recognition of their degree by large media, government institutions and even the White House.</p>
<p>I’d say that inspite of the unorthodox stand this school takes, their students on the average turn out to be just as good as any other college graduates if not better.</p>
<h2>Does anyone else figure that all of these kids getting Washington/political internships are probably among the staff of various Southern Baptist representatives and not well dispersed among the more moderate politicians?</h2>
<p>I think this is probably true. I know one PHC graduate who actually worked for Roman Catholic Senator Ric Santorum when he was Senator from Pennsylvania who is currently on the staff of the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think-tank).</p>
<p>But note that conservatives are still a large constituency in this country. The Southern Baptist Convention alone has 16 Million members. If you count the number of Evangelical Churches ( non mainline ), you’re probably looking at close to 1/4 of the electorate. Then there are Roman Catholic conservatives who also number in the millions.</p>
<p>Some of the kids going to this school are probably very smart. The problem is that they are far too parochial, especially if they have been homeschooled in the same kind of environment. If all the faculty are required to adhere to strict beliefs (such as recent creation), then the students are not taught to question those ideas, but are rather only taught how to support them against questioning by others. I have to say that I really don’t want people with this kind of tunnel vision–either on the left or the right–to be responsible for governing this country.</p>
<p>And recognize also that conservative evangelicals are trying to revert this great country to the days of the Dark Ages of Europe. Theocracy for the win!</p>
<p>To those who bash students who decided to attend PHC:
Maybe PHC wouldn’t be your favorite place to go (it wouldn’t be mind either), but who are you to call its students “idiotic”, “stupid” and lacking “common sense”? Obviously, people have done well after graduating from the school. Some people feel more comfortable going to a school that embraces their evangelical faith and where others are of the same mindset - it’s their choice.</p>
<p>I know some kids at PHC. It’s not a Community College and for the most part, the kids there are very intelligent. I’d say many of them are every bit as smart as students at tier-1 schools (but it’s not math-science oriented). So don’t be so critical. So what if some kids desire this kind of education? There’s a college for rigth-wing Muslims too, and many for ultra-conservative Jews. Different strokes for different folks. I think its ironic that people who demand “tolerance” can sometimes be the most intolerant.</p>
<p>Let’s put it this way, not all conservatives are religious and not all those who are religious are conservative. I believe what we observing is that there are a LARGE NUMBER of people who are BOTH religious AND conservative. This is the group that PHC strives to serve. It is obviously quite large, otherwise PHC would be out of business already.</p>
<p>As for tunnel vision, hey, no one is forced to become a faculty in this school. Obviously faculty members who adhere to the creed agree to teach there.</p>
<p>The term “tunnel vision” implies that students in the school don’t understand what they believe and are robots who prefer to be propagandize. </p>
<p>Well if so, it is a matter of reasoning with them to show them why they’re wrong. Unfortunately, people with “wide visions” (e.g. colleges whose students the student of PHC debate against ) are unable to make a dent in their beliefs.</p>
<p>BTW, PHC’s administrators do not want this country to be a Theocracy. Their President was interviewed at PBS radio once and he vehemently denies that ( even deplores it ). What he wants is for this country to revert back to the ideals of its original foundation.</p>
<h2>ideals of its original foundation" = mainly religious = mostly, if not entirely theocratic.</h2>
<p>NOPE. Ideals of the original foundation = Constitution of the United States as originally intended by the drafters and founders. You are entitled to your own interpretation, but you are not entitled to speak for the administrators of PHC.</p>
<p>“The term “tunnel vision” implies that students in the school don’t understand what they believe and are robots who prefer to be propagandize.”</p>
<p>But they have chosen to be propagandized, because they have chosen to go to a school where the ENTIRE FACULTY is required to adhere to a single, narrow point of view. They will never have a single professor who will challenge that narrow, parochial point of view. Of course they aren’t convinced by the “wider view” of the students they debate–they’ve been fully indoctrinated in the home school and then in college by teachers with a single, unified worldview.
Now, they have the perfect right to choose to do this. But the rest of us have the right to think and say that this is a very bad idea, and is not likely to produce fully educated graduates.</p>