Poll: Where do you stand on free tuition to state colleges and universities

[JDPriestly]

81. I have to return your question to you. What if what you think is wrong?

My children went to ordinary schools. They did not need special protections. In fact, one of my daughters went to an engineering school that was attended mostly by boys.

I'm not turning a privileged back to anyone. I'm just saying we live in the 21st century. We don't need segregation any more, not segregation based on race or segregation based on gender.

My daughter who attended a school that was traditionally a boys' school has done quite well and is able to deal with people who are different from her.

My children went to schools in which they were of a different race than most of the other children. That has been a big advantage to them in life.

Why do people have to go to schools that have only people or mostly people of their own race or gender? That concept of segregating by race or gender needs to be relinquished. We can do better.

How can someone complain about racism and then seek to go to school only with their own race? That makes no sense to me.

I realize that I will be branded as insensitive for saying that. My daughter was the only blond in her high school. It did not hurt her even though she had to put up with a devastating number of dumb blond jokes on a daily basis. (She is brilliant if I say so myself. Of course I am her mother.)

Let's end the racism. OK??? And the genderism while we are at it. Women no longer need schools just for themselves. And I think that a lot of women's colleges and traditionally Black colleges allow all qualified students. I believe I read that in one of the posts posted on this thread in fact.