Out of sight, out of mind?
Mar 10th, 2004A fascinating story from today's New York Times about how conservatives in the U.S., especially Christian conservatives who often have their children taught at home to shelter them from the 'evils and temptations' of the realities of public school life, are turning toward sending their kids to Patrick Henry College – the first college primarily for evangelical Christian homeschoolers. It says that seven of the 100 interns at the White House are from this school, which is interesting because the school only has about 240 students enrolled at any one time.
Here are some excerpts…
As one of 12 siblings taught at home by their parents in St. Croix Falls, Wis., Abram Olmstead knew he would fit right in at Patrick Henry College, the first college primarily for evangelical Christian home-schoolers. But what really sold him was the school's pipeline into conservative politics.
Of the nearly 100 interns working in the White House this semester, 7 are from the roughly 240 students enrolled in the four-year-old Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville. An eighth intern works for the president's re-election campaign. A former Patrick Henry intern now works on the paid staff of the president's top political adviser, Karl Rove. Over the last four years, 22 conservative members of Congress have employed one or more Patrick Henry interns in their offices or on their campaigns, according to the school's records.
"I would definitely like to be active in the government of our country and stuff," Mr. Olmstead, 19, said as he sat in a Christian coffeehouse near the campus, looking up from a copy of Plato's "Republic." "I would love to be able to be a foreign ambassador, and I would really like to move into the Senate later in my career."I wonder what they think of online universities?
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