Summary:

The loudest story about American colleges is disconnected from what college students care about. Even so, the nation’s diverse, aspirational college students are trying to make college choices that align with their political values. According to this survey, they are remarkably progressive, fair-minded and unafraid of intellectual challenge. If only our politics lived up to their values.

That gives me hope.

The problem isn’t the students, it’s their parents. I have a MAGA-in-law who didn’t even want his kids to go to college because he was afeered they would come back “woke”.

I lived through a campus shooting last year. As I watched college students climb calmly out of windows to escape the building, I realized this is a generation raised on constant shooting drills. That might explain why 38 percent of students who study on campus said they were worried about gun violence at their schools. Campus gun policies mattered at least somewhat to 80 percent of those surveyed. And of those who cared, students who wanted more restrictive gun policies outweighed those who preferred looser policies by five to one, according to the report.

“Campus gun policies” don’t stop shootings. Safe space gun bans didn’t stop the campus shooting mentioned by the author. The “safety” described is an illusion.

Maybe we should spend less time criticizing the government for not infringing on our freedoms and more time educating prospective students about how to actually be safe?