Elitists, Crybabies and Junky Degrees

[JJ_BPK]

Good article describing the Left's destruction of our higher education systems.

The authors did well to ask Frank his opinion..

Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees: A Trump supporter explains rising conservative anger at American universities,, Story by Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan


COCHISE, Arizona

Frank Antenori shot the head off a rattlesnake at his back door last summer — a deadeye pistol blast from 20 feet. No college professor taught him that. The U.S. Army trained him, as a marksman and a medic, on the “two-way rifle range” of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Useful skills. Smart return on taxpayers’ investment. Not like the waste he sees at too many colleges and universities, where he says liberal professors teach “ridiculous” classes and indoctrinate students “who hang out and protest all day long and cry on our dime.”

“Why does a kid go to a major university these days?” said Antenori, 51, a former Green Beret who served in the Arizona state legislature. “A lot of Republicans would say they go there to get brainwashed and learn how to become activists and basically go out in the world and cause trouble.”

Antenori is part of an increasingly vocal campaign to transform higher education in America. Though U.S. universities are envied around the world, he and other conservatives want to reduce the flow of government cash to what they see as elitist, politically correct institutions that often fail to provide practical skills for the job market.

To the alarm of many educators, nearly every state has cut funding to public colleges and universities since the 2008 financial crisis. Adjusted for inflation, states spent $5.7 billion less on public higher education last year than in 2008, even though they were educating more than 800,000 additional students, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.


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[Streck-Fu]

A Trump supporter publishes in the WaPo....? My Spidey senses are tingling...

In my opinion, the author really missed the point if it was to present a legitimate case about college. But the article is full of crap like:

Why does a kid go to a major university these days?” said Antenori, 51, a former Green Beret who served in the Arizona state legislature. “A lot of Republicans would say they go there to get brainwashed and learn how to become activists and basically go out in the world and cause trouble.”

Antenori views former president Barack Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer who taught at the University of Chicago Law School, as the embodiment of the liberal establishment. Antenori said liberal elites with fancy degrees who have been running Washington for so long have forgotten those who think differently.

“If you don’t do everything that their definition of society is, you’re somehow a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal cave man,” Antenori said.

Antenori is just as happy his sons aren’t hanging out with the “weirdos” he reads about on Campus Reform, a conservative website with a network of college reporters whose stated mission is to expose “liberal bias and abuse on America’s campuses.”

Two years ago, Antenori moved out of Tucson to rural Cochise because he “couldn’t take the hippies anymore. They were raising my taxes for every stupid little thing, like bike paths and puppy palaces.”

It seems they want the appearance of presenting both sides of the issue but actually paint the proponent of college as a stereotypical conservative old curmudgeon.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

A Trump supporter publishes in the WaPo....? My Spidey senses are tingling...

"Story by Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan"

[WarriorDiplomat]

Author of Roughneck91

Antenori is doing right by many Americans and shows you that others heard the response of Americans to the establishment being called out.

He is also on the board of TF Dagger advocates out of D.C.whom protect SOF from VA crap as we retire

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by Pete

"Story by Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan"

I admit I reacted to the title.

The author was not flattering or really fair to the point being made by Antenori. It seems that what he is saying is colored but the author's writing.