[Alvin]

Since 2020, and I say this as a parent, getting my kids into elite universities is no longer a priority. My priority is their health and well-being, and I encouraged my oldest to only apply to colleges that respect freedom, that never locked down, never forced masks or vaccinations on students and staff, that do not post photos of masked students on their homepage and do not have a "Covid resources" tab on their website.  That narrowed down the list to about 5 to 10 colleges and universities. He's doing fine. Very smart kid who's totally awake to what's happening in the country and particularly at universities with Marxist CRT curriculum, LGBTq promotion, censorship of dissenting views, and other progressive activism. You could offer him a full ride to Stanford, Harvard, etc. and he would turn them down in a heartbeat. All that tiger parenting stuff went out the door on March 2020...and not because of a so-called virus but because of the hysterical, panicked social response by governments and educational institutions that destroyed educations and caused skyrocketing psychological damage to children.

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Nah, the kids are alright.  We’re just turning into our grandparents.

BC

You are wrong. There is a massive problem with our kids today.  Since 2020, spike in suicides and overdoses. declining college enrollment, massive loss of education along with 20 point IQ drop among kids born after 2020, reduced employment opportunities or underemployment, gender dysphoria surge of patients ages 6-17 since 2017...and think about the dramatic demographic changes from the relatively high number of millennials to the rather smaller number of zoomers...and wait for the Covid generation. We're going to witness mass closings and bankruptcies of K-12 and higher education schools in the next 10-20 years. The days of 50,000 student campuses are coming to an end.

[Alvin]

Since 2020, and I say this as a parent, getting my kids into elite universities is no longer a priority. My priority is their health and well-being, and I encouraged my oldest to only apply to colleges that respect freedom, that never locked down, never forced masks or vaccinations on students and staff, that do not post photos of masked students on their homepage and do not have a "Covid resources" tab on their website.  That narrowed down the list to about 5 to 10 colleges and universities. He's doing fine. Very smart kid who's totally awake to what's happening in the country and particularly at universities with Marxist CRT curriculum, LGBTq promotion, censorship of dissenting views, and other progressive activism. You could offer him a full ride to Stanford, Harvard, etc. and he would turn them down in a heartbeat. All that tiger parenting stuff went out the door on March 2020...and not because of a so-called virus but because of the hysterical, panicked social response by governments and educational institutions that destroyed educations and caused skyrocketing psychological damage to children.

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Nah, the kids are alright.  We’re just turning into our grandparents.

BC

You are wrong. There is a massive problem with our kids today.  Since 2020, spike in suicides and overdoses. declining college enrollment, massive loss of education along with 20 point IQ drop among kids born after 2020, reduced employment opportunities or underemployment, gender dysphoria surge of patients ages 6-17 since 2017...and think about the dramatic demographic changes from the relatively high number of millennials to the rather smaller number of zoomers...and wait for the Covid generation. We're going to witness mass closings and bankruptcies of K-12 and higher education schools in the next 10-20 years. The days of 50,000 student campuses are coming to an end.