Ella Cook Was Buried Today.

'Ellabama': Funeral held for beloved Ella Cook, Brown University shooting victim…

As a Birmingham native, I am very familiar with the social milieu in which Ella Cook was raised. As I learned more about the victim, the question gnawing at me is why conservative parents from Red States continue to send their children to Ivy League schools?

I have seen too many parents in Alabama send their children — and substantial financial resources — to these “elite” universities located in Deep Blue progressive states. This decision is often justified as a rational investment in their child’s long-term economic prospects, based on the perceived advantages of institutional prestige, professional networks, and enhanced career opportunities.

So within this materialistic framework, parents rationalize that the inevitable exposure to progressive or left-leaning ideological perspectives is an acceptable trade-off for the anticipated material and social benefits that a diploma from these “elite” schools confers. Yet while students may indeed become credentialed professionals in fields such as medicine, law, architecture and accounting, they also will be exposed to socialist frameworks that portray the United States as fundamentally flawed nation that needs radical transformation.

Furthermore, students who refuse to adopt these prevailing theoretical or ideological perspectives will likely face academic marginalization, social ostracism, reputational harm, or even physical harm. As a result, the conventional markers of “success” sought by parents come with too heavy a price since these “elite” schools have become little more than indoctrination mills for the absolute worst elements of the radical, globalist left.

Certainly schools of higher education in Red States are not free from the noxious ideologies that have infiltrated much of academia. Yet students in Red States can find strength in numbers and thus not risk the social isolation that conservative students at “elite” universities must necessarily endure.

It certainly is not my intent to blame the victim’s parents who must be suffering tremendous agony for this senseless and evil act; yet this issue must be addressed. Our children’s future — and indeed the proper moral development of future generations — depend upon it.