Foxfyre wrote:I think if most Americans would recognize the problem and push for a remedy, we could within a very few years restore academic excellence to our public schools and regain our bragging rights. Right now, we are an academic embarassment.
What's all this nonsense about a "remedy?" Surely,
Foxfyre, you're not suggesting the imposition of quotas? Or government mandates? Or the creation of a federal oversight bureacracy? Really, your reticence to identify any particular remedy for this "problem" is, I think, intended to mask your support of a big-government solution. For shame!
But the remedy shouldn't require any government intervention at all. Conservatives always talk about the efficiency of market solutions, so why shouldn't the market provide the solution in this case? After all, colleges compete like any other businesses. And businesses that provide bad services or products should (all things being equal) be less successful than their competitors. So if a liberal bias among a college's professoriate is deemed by consumers (i.e. students) to be undesirable, they are free to go to a competitor. Students, in other words, should be tossing their Ivy League admissions letters into the wastebasket and going to
Regent University or
Grove City College or any of the top ten conservative colleges listed by the
Young America's Foundation.
If enough students choose conservative colleges over their purportedly "liberal" rivals, then the former will prosper and the latter will either suffer, dwindle, and die or else adapt their product to be more competitive. The remedy for liberal colleges, therefore, is simple: better conservative colleges.