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Originally posted by Strange Famous
I assume this is irony, an Onion article or something?
if it is a real college, then all I could say is they must have no students. And how silly to create a college called "Liberty" and impose and many stupid rules that restrict freedom as you can imagine... I guess they must have read 1984 and be determined to help prove Orwell right?
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Don't laugh. Colleges like this exist. I graduated from one. It was a private college. They accepted no government grant or anything form the government. They were a religious college. My sister in law was kicked out of school in her first semester when they found out that she's tried smoking ONE time the summer prior to her enrolling in college. Her parents were on faculty so went along with it though they protested to the school in written form. She went back and will be graduating this spring. At that school the rules in general were as follows. No TV (unless sports events supervised by a school authority), no rock music, rap, CCM, etc. Only classical and traditional religious, no skirts above the knee, girls - no pants or slacks to class, town, anywhere but the gym, No girls allowed in the boys dorm, and visa versa, no sex, kissing, hand holding (6 inch rule - 6 inches between a guy an girl when seated)... Shall I go on? I survived. I put up with MOST of the rules because it weeded out the students who weren't there for the education. I feel that my education was exceptional and that I was less distracted by parties and such because of the strict rigid rules. I saw students kicked out for kissing, TPing the water tower and other "semi-serious" offenses. The student body grew from about 300 students in 1994 to about 800 last year.
I don't think this kind of regulation should be allowed in a public school. If it's a private school though - you have a choice - if you don't like it you can leave. For private schools it's party a method of weeding out the students who don't have the same goals as the school and they can keep their student body of a certain type. Less conflict in the student body I think. Granted hubby and I both agree that the school has gone overboard and not moved with the times but it's their way. If my daughter ever decided to go to a school like that she had better abide by the contract she signs agreeing to abide by their rules. Otherwise (unless they carried the punishment to the extreme as in my sister-in-laws case) I will back up the school if she breaks the rules. She can go where she wants but she lives with what she chooses.