A shift toward private schools/colleges means a shift away from secular education.

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1. They're "safe spaces."

That should rile somebody up.

But that's how it is--nobody's feelings get ruffled by being challenged, nobody has to be confronted with something offensive. They're safe spaces. The positive side is that they reinforce identity. It's just "identity" that most here disapprove of, but all such safe spaces not only protect but provide echo chambers.

In some ways they serve the purpose that HBCUs often serve today and a number of _______ studies programs serve at the graduate (and even undergraduate) level.

At larger schools you wind up with "__________ student associations" and "_________ clubs" that do the same thing--they create a safer, segregated microcosm within a larger, anonymous space.