When we were growing up back in the sixties, college was a goal that not all of us could achieve for either academic or economic reasons. Some boys actually joined the service to avoid getting drafted into the Army where they’d certainly be sent to Viet Nam. Girls were trained in secretarial skills in high school so they could get a job right out of school and leave the nest. Few of my friends attended a four year college but most of us at least went to junior college. Most girls actually married right out of high school.

I attended one year of junior college before my parents told me to get a job as a stenographer. I can even remember going to a job interview and telling the boss that I was “seventeen and a half years old” to which he chuckled. Needless to say, I didn’t get that job. I did however pass the State Steno Test and was hired by the State Highway Department currently known as CALTRANS. I became proficient at taking dictation and turning out a well-written letter on an old electric typewriter.

After three years of being a secretary, I quit my career to return to college to take engineering classes as I wished to become a draftsman like some of the guys I met at CALTRANS. Plus my father was an engineer as well as my oldest brother. My mother thought I was being unladylike to want that job. I thought it was fun. After several classes, I was hired by an architect to be an apprentice draftsman together with answering his phones. It was a stepping stone into ten years of advancement as first woman in civil engineering technician jobs, which I loved and appreciated. It was my calling.

Today, however, I see women going into college to major in Women Studies. What kind of a job will that land you other than being an activist with a pink knit cap or future professor? Colleges are brainwashing our youth into becoming hateful activists against any group that is suppressive in their mind. Just like why the president of Harvard is allowing antisemitism to persist at her university. Students are quick to label groups as either being oppressed or the suppressers and therein lies the problem for the Jewish in America and abroad. They don’t have a chance against these brainwashed souls. They will overlook savage atrocities done by Hamas to Israeli women and children and choose to blame Israel instead.

In their feeble minds, as long as you are the oppressed like the LBGTQ, BLM, Trans, Pro choice groups, you will be a protected class. Once they label you as a suppresser, however, you will be vilified like they’ve done to the Jews, GOP, Asians, white guys, MAGA, and pro life groups. Our country has never been so divided in my lifetime, and I blame indoctrination of our youth by universities which turn out biased journalists, politicians, and teachers which perpetuate the lies they learned. They are rewriting history to suit themselves, tearing down statues, removing words from our English language, forcing employees to choose a pronoun, and changing the names of our schools. It’s sick!

One healthcare worker is forced to tell a client her pronoun and how she wants to be addressed before even talking to her. If she doesn’t, she will be fired. She feels uncomfortable doing this but is required. This comes from Biden/Obamacare. I recently made an appointment for a mammogram and the girl asked me what pronoun I go by. I asked, “Whadda talking about?’

She responded, “I have to ask this as it is required by the government.”

I responded, “This is a stupid question and I refuse to answer.” The phone went silent to which I added, ”I’m getting a mammogram. Do the math.”

“I’ll mark you down as a female.”

“Oh, wow. How lucky for me.”

I currently don’t care if my grandsons don’t get into a prestigious university but would rather have them attend an average state college. Why waste money on them getting brainwashed into some climate/gender change major. Let’s get back to basics and teach them some skills and basic knowledge of history and the English language.

One of my sons learned graphic art in a state college, another marketing skills, and another law. These skills get them good jobs. No telling what the boys are learning these days in college. Probably how to change their gender and hate rich folks. So glad my kids went to college before all this nonsense started. Now our media is run by a bunch of these woke college graduates and why they support antisemitism.

Education needs to get back to what it used to be: Educating not indoctrinating. These woke professors need to be fired and more conservative ones hired in their place. When we get a more equal political selection of professors into our colleges then, and only then, will our children get a more openminded education. Right now it is all on the Left. Only 1% of Harvard teachers vote Republican and that is an outrage. Their excuse: “We select from the most brilliant minds leaving political party aside” meaning Republicans are not up to their standards. Laughable.

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year. My wish for the New Year is for the Bidens to be held accountable and for Trump to be innocent of all charges. It’s a lofty wish, but I still believe in karma.