Would you send your child to this Christian college?

Question

This college has critisized Bob Jones for being too liberal.

At this college, men and women use differant stairwells and sidewalks, and you can be expelled for hugging someone.

No music, no movies (not even G rated), no tv, no internet.

Everything is regulated, and the athorities are always watching.

A student was quoted as saying "Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a very 1984 feel to the place."

Read the article here:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=516745

Can you imagine going there? The constant fear of breaking another rule? What kind of person would want to go there, or would want their son or daughter to go there?

What do you think?

I'll post a few bits for those who don't want to click the link.

Of Pensacola's many rules, those dealing with male-female relationships are the most talked about. There are restrictions on when and where men and women may speak to each other. Some elevators and stairwells may be used only by women; others may be used only by men. Socializing on particular benches is forbidden. If a man and a woman are walking to class, they may chat; if they stop en route, though, they may be in trouble. Generally men and women caught interacting in any "unchaperoned area" — which is most of the campus — could be subject to severe penalties.

Those rules extend beyond the campus. A man and a woman cannot go to an off-campus restaurant together without a chaperon (usually a faculty member). Even running into members of the opposite sex off campus can lead to punishment. One student told of how a group of men and a group of women from the college happened to meet at a McDonald's last spring. Both groups were returning from the beach (they had gone to separate beaches; men and women are not allowed to be at the beach together). The administration found out, and all 15 students were expelled.

Even couples who are not talking or touching can be reprimanded. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies." While the rule does not appear in written form, most students interviewed for this article were familiar with the concept.

As she tells it, Ms. Poirier was not gazing lovingly at her boyfriend; he had something in his eye. But officials didn't buy her explanation, and she and her boyfriend were both "socialed," she says.

There are three levels of official punishment at Pensacola (four, if you count expulsion). Students can be "socialed," "campused," or "shadowed." Students who are socialed are not allowed to talk to members of the opposite sex for two weeks. Those who are campused may not leave the college grounds for two weeks or speak to other campused students.

Being shadowed is the worst of the three. Shadowed students are assigned to a "floor leader" for several days. A floor leader is a student who is paid by the college and has the power to issue demerits. Shadowed students must attend the floor leader's classes and sleep in the floor leader's room. During this time, the shadowed student is not allowed to talk to anyone but the floor leader. Shadowing is usually a prelude to expulsion.

Ms. Poirier was later told she would be shadowed after being spotted riding in a car in mixed company. She tried to explain that it was an innocent outing, but to no avail. When told she would be shadowed, Ms. Poirier decided to withdraw. "I said 'screw it' and I left," she says.

There are plenty of other ways to run afoul of the rules. Last spring Timothy Dow was caught playing the video game Halo 2. Such games are banned by the college. Movies are also forbidden, including those rated G. Music is restricted to classical or approved Christian ("contemporary Christian" artists are deemed too worldly). Students are allowed to watch television news at 6 o'clock, but that's it. The TVs are controlled by college employees, who flip a switch to black out the commercials, lest students see anything inappropriate.

In the library, books and magazines are censored. One student says she saw a pair of black-marker boxer shorts on a photograph of Michelangelo's David. Any books that students wish to read that are not in the library must first be approved by administrators. Those containing references to "magic," for instance, are normally rejected. The rule book specifically prohibits "fleshly magazines and books."

Answer 1

apparently there are enough people who would attend such a school, since it exists.

Most private universities are bastions of liberal, atheist thought. I think that's just as bad.

Answer 2

So scary. What is worse to me is that the kids going there probably have been given no real choice in the matter. They have just been so heavily indoctrinated and brainwashed from birth. Have you seen the movie "Jesus Camp"? Pretty scary stuff there as well. It makes me a little worried. This is cult stuff and cults are sort of amusing to those on the outside of it until they get to be as large as some of these groups are, then they are really bad news.

Answer 3

Actually, I don't think that I would want to go there myself.
But, I am pagan beliefs, and I graduated from a Baptist College in GA. I send my child to Methodist Pre-K.
It is not because I wanted to, it was merely out of convience.
My choices are limited, and the opportunity was there, so I had to take what I could get as far as an education is concerned.

Answer 4

No, nor would I have ever gone there (most of my school mates ended up going there, I went to the university). I used to get pamphlets from them all the time! I did go to a Christian school and they used the textbooks from the same publisher as the one from the Christian Pensacola college... Beka Books (They are all run by the same people). You want to see some crazy messed up school books? Look at Beka Book. They teach hardly any real science at all , they slam not only evolution in their books...but quantum physics and general relativity! And what little science hey do teach is far outdated, I remember looking at one of my Dad's old science books from the 1950's, it was more up to date then the brand new Beka books. The history books are chuck full of revisionist history and conspiracy theories taught as fact. The math books are just horrible, I don't even want to go there. I really had to catch up when I went to college. "Health" books mainly consist of teaching "Christian morals" and have little to do with biology or fitness.

Hmm, thanks for the memories! lol Christian Pensacola College is just the college format of the school I used to attend, they follow all the same rules. It is like high security prison, with the added re-programing and constantly being told your worthless sinners . Like I said, I knew some people who attended that college because that was what was being pushed at my school, one of the people committed suicide after going there. I wonder why?

Answer 5

Wow, that is a little intense. I went to a Christian College, and it was like hugging and dates, and good movies were almost overly-encouraged because they wanted to get the students married off to each other. I'd take that any day over not allowing it at all.

Answer 6

Christian college ? No. Public college ? additionally no. i might relatively deliver my newborn to a Catholic college and that i'm an atheist. it relatively is purely that public colleges suck. I mean, relatively, relatively suck. John Taylor Gatto. yet i presumed maximum of that purely by means of paying interest at college. nevertheless, i might relatively relatively homeschool. All of it relatively is assuming i became even going to reproduce. yet I pay interest and that i've got concluded that lifestyles isn't something i pick to inflict on somebody who has completed no longer something to me.

Answer 7

No. I see no need to pay tuition to a school who's stated mission is to crush my child's human spirit.

I'm Catholic and send my kids to Catholic school...but the school's mission isn't to remove the kid from the real world. They work to teach him how to make right choices.

Some of the best lessons in life are learned by falling into an occasion for sin. If I wanted to pull out all stops and force my kid to be a "perfect" Christian, I could simply lock him in a room for his entire life.

If being a human and suffering temptation was good enough for Jesus...it's good enough for my kids!

Answer 8

Nope. I have cousins that went to Bob Jones and now they can't figure out why no one thinks their degree is serious. They all ended up teaching at Christian Schools for half the going rate for a teacher.

Answer 9

My uncle actually graduated from Bob Jones, and it is hard for me to imagine anyone thinking it is liberal. LOL

I would not send my child there. You go to college to learn, and hopefully learn something to help you become a productive member of society. If I shelter my grown kids from the world, they will not be able to function in it. I want to equip them to handle negative influence not hide them from it.

Answer 10

When I first read your question, I thought, sure why wouldn't I ? BUT after reading all that, NO, I wouldn't send them there. I am their parent and I don't make them follow all those rules, so why go of to college and have to?

Answer 11

I don't put much faith in news articles about "christian" colleges. I wouldn't send my child to any christian college because of what I know personally about most of them! At least at a secular college the evil isn't hid behind a mask of "christianity"!