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re: Spinoff: Would you let your child go to an HBCU
Posted on 6/11/16 at 2:11 am to LordSaintly
Posted on 6/11/16 at 2:11 am to LordSaintly
Yeah I never had that white privilege thing that seems to get thrown out there also. I grew up in the early 80's in Louisiana when the oil industry went bust. Dad left at age 12, I lived in trailer parks, we were on government assistance, etc. My mom had 3 Boys all of us served in the military and then got our degrees afterwards. No privilege there just a want to better my life.
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Posted on 6/11/16 at 7:18 am to volod
I have a white friend who studied music, after big loft degree from LSU, at Southern. He said it was hard as frick. He tried to play sax and he said those kids were just too good. He was guitarist when got accepted but you have to play two instruments. The only other one he could compete in was bass guitar. Now he's bassist in New Orleans living his dream. Southern had some insane music teachers he said. He met a band full of friends, though they've mostly moved on professionally.
So yea, if my boy thought he could play a horn I'd love to send him into the hornets nest to see if he could hang. My friend also said there were some of finest black chicks he could ever imagine walking around campus.
So yea, if my boy thought he could play a horn I'd love to send him into the hornets nest to see if he could hang. My friend also said there were some of finest black chicks he could ever imagine walking around campus.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 7:58 am to volod
You've got to have an impressive downvote to up vote ratio
Posted on 6/11/16 at 7:59 am to volod
Spellman or horward only.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 8:25 am to volod
I had dinner once with the president of an HBCU. He said that about half of their students belonged in college, and the other half struggled with basic literacy.
They pretty much ignored the lower half, and let them flunk out.
The upper half, they groomed for government jobs. He said that was pretty much their model to get the students into decent jobs: land a civil service job in engineering or administration where you basically had guaranteed raises, guaranteed retirement, and couldn't ever be fired.
He was under no illusion that they were trying to prepare students for the real world.
They pretty much ignored the lower half, and let them flunk out.
The upper half, they groomed for government jobs. He said that was pretty much their model to get the students into decent jobs: land a civil service job in engineering or administration where you basically had guaranteed raises, guaranteed retirement, and couldn't ever be fired.
He was under no illusion that they were trying to prepare students for the real world.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 8:41 am to volod
No. My daughter just finished her jr. year of high school. She has a 4.59 gpa. I would be doing her a disservice to send her to an inferior academic institution.
Unfortunately, due to logistics and scholarships, she will attend the 43rd ranked engineering school in the country.
Unfortunately, due to logistics and scholarships, she will attend the 43rd ranked engineering school in the country.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 9:18 am to volod
frick no
For a multitude of reasons, beginning with the fact they are all bad schools
For a multitude of reasons, beginning with the fact they are all bad schools
Posted on 6/11/16 at 9:47 am to volod
sure...
i mean, i went to a HBCU, so yeah...
i mean, i went to a HBCU, so yeah...
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:01 am to Gullah Gullah Island
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They went to Florida A&M and as far as I know it's a pretty good school.
I've always heard good things about their engineering program. My husband works with a few FAMU grads, and he has a high opinion of the quality of their work.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:03 am to volod
If son, only if on athletic scholarship.
If daughter, no.
If daughter, no.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:04 am to volod
My son was recruited to play baseball at a one and we considered it. He decided to go to another school but it was a serious consideration for a while.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:23 am to chRxis
assuming by your user name you went to Xavier
Xavier is a non-typical hbcu as it is also a Catholic university
If my daughter wanted to be a pharmacist and wanted to go to school in nola I'd encourage her to go Xavier
no other hbcu I would even consider as her grades and test scores qualified her for any school she wanted
Xavier is a non-typical hbcu as it is also a Catholic university
If my daughter wanted to be a pharmacist and wanted to go to school in nola I'd encourage her to go Xavier
no other hbcu I would even consider as her grades and test scores qualified her for any school she wanted
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:31 am to volod
Are you asking only non-black parents? I would certainly let my kids go to an hbcu and would encourage them to do so. But they won't. They're like I was at that age.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:41 am to volod
My daughter's best friend (she's black)is going to Spelman when the time comes. I don't get the appeal of doing the "black college", "black sorority" insular thing in 2016. I really am not a fan of the whole HBCU concept. It reinforces all that group identity politics crap and makes your world much smaller, imho. Make your world BIGGER, kids.
That said, I love the girl and her family and will be keeping tabs on her like my own.
That said, I love the girl and her family and will be keeping tabs on her like my own.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 10:43 am to Lsupimp
What's the appeal of the "white sorority thing"? Or the white college thing? I would imagine that most white people (outside of places like California) go to overwhelmingly white colleges.
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