MEGHAN MCCAIN: Over my dead body will I pay thousands for my children to go to a woke college to fill their heads with useless, leftist garbage. And as enrollments plunge, millions clearly agree

Where am I going to send my girls for college? Heck, are they even going to go?

Higher education has always been seen as the gateway to a bright future in America. But increasingly, millions are deciding it’s just not worth the cost.

After all, who in their right mind would willingly subject themselves or their loved ones to hateful, irrational, woke indoctrination?

It’s Free Market Capitalism 101!

Between 2012-2019 the number of students enrolled in a U.S. university dropped from 20.5 million students to 18.2 million.

The COVID pandemic only accelerated the decline, but since then enrollments haven’t bounced back. In fact, they’ve continued to tumble down.

When the times comes, my two children may be among those choosing a job over a major. My youngest isn’t even out of diapers yet, but I don’t think that this so absurd.

It’s an idea that many parents wrestle with as they stress over schools, tests, extra-curriculum activities and stashing away money to be spent on dorm rooms, books, and tuition.

The way things are going in academia today – college is the last place I would pay for my kids to attend.

The vile, unhinged commencement address at The City University of New York’s law school is just the latest example of what passes for acceptable rhetoric in our modern academic cesspools.

Keynote speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed stepped to the podium on May 12th and spewed the typical, far-left gibberish, but with her own antisemitic flair.

The Yemeni-born and Queens, New York-raised woman smeared the NYPD as ‘fascist’ and called for a ‘revolution’ to challenge ‘oppressive’ institutions, like the military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the prison system.

According to her – an aspiring lawyer no less – the law is a ‘manifestation of white supremacy’ and, to top it all off, she indulged in all the greatest hits of antisemitic tropes.

She alleged ‘donors’ and ‘investors’ were secretly manipulating the school system, accused Israel of ‘indiscriminate’ murder, and encouraged her fellow graduates to ‘fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism and Zionism around the world,’ as if all those ‘isms’ belong in the same sentence.

Mohammad is certainly entitled to her opinion, but her school is not expected to endorse it, especially since this is a taxpayer-funded institution.

Though there was the Law School Dean, Sudha Setty, applauding along with all the others throwing their support behind Mohammed — a well-known activist with antisemitic leanings.

Clips have since emerged showing Mohammed telling a Midtown Manhattan crowd last year to demand that ‘Zionist professors [and] students’ be excluded from campuses.

Ask yourself: Would someone who called for pro-Palestinian teachers and students to be kicked off campus ever be given a speaking slot at any university commencement?

Of course, they wouldn’t. Only one type of hate is accepted.

Parents and students are watching and they’re seeing this play out again and again. The woke cowards running these educational institutions see themselves as advocates for misguided students.

Remember what happened at Stanford Law School back in March.

The school’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion rushed into a melee as a mob of deranged students berated a federal judge, who had been invited by a conservative group to speak on campus.

But instead of scolding the crazed audience – she joined them, infamously asking the judge if his right to free speech was worth the harm that his words were causing these snowflakes.

And this at one of the premier law schools in the country!

Though there was the Law School Dean, Sudha Setty, (above) applauding along with all the others throwing their support behind Mohammed — a well-known activist with antisemitic leanings.

The school’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion (above, left) rushed into a melee as a mob of deranged students berated a federal judge, who had been invited by a conservative group to speak on campus.

Here’s what I know – no child of mine will ever attend a university that promotes anti-American, anti-free speech, anti-capitalist garbage and antisemitic hate speech.

Never. Ever. Over. My. Dead. Body.

But this is now the real price of a college education.

My alma mater Columbia University was recently ranked the worst college for free speech by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) after they surveyed 45,000 students from more than 200 campuses.

I thrived at Columbia. It was a privilege to receive an education at such an incredible institution in the heart of New York City. I did not feel that my opinion was stifled. I was not targeted for being an outspoken Republican. But my children wouldn’t have that same experience today — it breaks my heart.

The inmates are running the asylums and there’s seemingly nowhere to turn.

In May, a CUNY professor was filmed destroying the display of pro-life students. But she wasn’t fired until she held a machete to the throat of journalist and threatened to ‘chop him up into little pieces’ after he showed up at her apartment to ask questions.

The University of Colorado Boulder’s website now states that misgendering people can be considered an act of violence.

In May, a CUNY professor (above, left) was filmed destroying the display of pro-life students. But she wasn’t fired until she held a machete to the throat of journalist and threatened to ‘chop him up into little pieces’ after he showed up at her apartment to ask questions.

The University of Connecticut will reportedly soon require students to pass an ‘Anti-Black Racism’ course in order to graduate. ‘Intro to antisemitism’ is not yet a prerequisite.

I wish this were all a joke, but it is not.

Professors and administrators no longer strive to teach students how to think, but what to think. And thankfully, American’s aren’t buying what they’re selling.

Bucking the trend of declining four-year college enrollments, two-year community colleges are roaring back.

The most popular majors at the two-year institutions include Computer and Information Sciences, Mechanic and Repair Technologies, Personal and Culinary Services and Transportation and Materials Moving.

Young Americans want to be taught a trade or a skill. Their parents want to know that their hard-earned dollars are going toward enriching their children’s lives, not filling their heads with useless ideologies.

A degree in ‘intersectional solidarity’ isn’t a great way to make a living.

American Universities better recognize that before they fail out.