For those of you who are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to send your kids to college, so that they can be well read, well educated, well rounded independent individuals who contribute to society, I’ll bet you never counted on this recent addition to the curricular line up. It also leaves me to question what ever happened to parental influence in social engineering of their own offspring? After all, these kids are in college. We’re not talking about elementary/secondary public education institutions where children attend local schools. College kids attend schools at various locations around the country, world. Do they not experience exposure to a diverse culture in college? Diverse races, sexes, cultures? Do they really need DIVERSITY TRAINING?
I spent most of my adult life readying my children for college. I pulled them from public school and homeschooled them. The thought of all that hard work and dedication being force upon and assaulted with someone else’s view of what is socially appropriate is more than a little offensive. The University of Missouri has taken upon themselves to program incoming freshmen with the correct world view of culture/diversity.
ABC/30 reported: COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – All freshmen at the University of Missouri will be required to undergo diversity training, beginning in January.
The university made the announcement Thursday, days after a student was removed from the Columbia campus for shouting racial slurs at a black student group practicing for homecoming.
That incident came less than a month after someone shouted racial slurs a Missouri Students Association President Payton Head, who is black.
The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/vrhz6V ) the training will eventually become mandatory for all faculty, staff and other students.The training will start with new students coming to Missouri in January. University spokesman Christian Basi says that will allow the university to see what adjustments might be needed before about 6,200 freshmen enroll in the fall of 2016.