I live in St Louis MO and have two daughters (a senior in high school and a freshman in high school). My senior daughter applied to Mizzou late last fall and got accepted into the honors college but then two things happened:
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The administration caved in to ridiculous demands from protesters and from the football team.
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The journalism school as well as academia as a whole at Mizzou became an embarrassment thanks to Melissa Click.
Neither of my daughters will be going to Mizzou.
If I hear “safe space” or “academic bankruptcy program” one more time I think I’m going to be sick. I have no doubt that racism and bigotry exist at Mizzou just like they do everywhere. It’s important through education and communication to work towards eliminating those problems. But the way this was handled at Mizzou by high-level administrators and by some of their educators tells me that Mizzou is not the right place for my daughters.