By Sean Duffy | Commentary, Fox News
I will never apologize for wanting to protect her soul. That is a father’s sacred duty, whether the left likes it or not.
My wife and I have a saying we’ve repeated often over the years to our nine children, “My job is to get you into heaven, not Harvard.” This week, I learned that motto is pretty controversial.
On Wednesday, I officially launched “The Great America Road Trip” series on YouTube. The show, which follows my family as we discover America, promotes road trips at a time when so many Americans feel disconnected from their country and even from their own families.
On one of our stops, my family did what many families do; we visited prospective colleges. We drove to Boston to tour Boston College and Harvard University, the latter being our daughter Paloma’s first-choice school. Before we arrived, I sat down with her and spoke frankly.
I told her that Harvard, like so many of America’s elite universities, has become a factory for anti-American and anti-Christian ideas. I had no interest in writing a check so that an institution could undo the 18 years Rachel and I spent instilling our child with our Catholic morals and values.
No surprise — leftists on social media are losing their minds. How dare a father express concern for his daughter’s soul in the college decision-making process? They can’t imagine anyone would forego the bragging rights of an elite Ivy League.
In fact, Democrats and their media allies seem utterly unaware that millions of ordinary parents are having precisely the same kitchen table conversations. As I told Paloma, these institutions have “professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds.”
Back in 2020, our oldest daughter, Evita, was canceled and even received a death threat at the University of Chicago for holding conservative opinions. After this dramatic experience, Rachel and I resolved that we would only pay for colleges we approved.
Our list, partially formed by a conversation we had with Victor Davis Hanson, did not include Harvard for its hostility to free speech, lack of ideological diversity among its faculty and crazy woke antics.
Despite all my reservations about Harvard and institutions like it, Paloma applied during her senior year, and I decided we should take a family road trip to see it for ourselves. The experience, documented on the road trip, proved eye-opening.
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