Watch out!  Going to school might ruin a perfectly good conservative child.

That’s the message this morning from pundit and school-founder Dennis Prager.

In the pages of National Review Online, Prager gives conservative parents advice about how to keep their kids conservative.

The danger is clear, Prager warns.  Those who believe in “traditional American values” must fight a “war” with “the media and the schools” for control of their children’s minds.

Kids must be told repeatedly and explicitly about the propriety of conservative ideas.  Not only that, they must be intellectually inoculated against the sorts of left-wing propaganda they will be subjected to in college.  One way to do that is to get high-schoolers to spend some time in the world of work before college.  By seeing a slice of the real world, young people will be protected from the drivel that passes for academic thought these days, Prager claims.

Another option is to have young people spend a year or so after college studying their faith.  After all, he says, leftism itself is an influential faith on college campuses.  Students who are grounded in their own religious traditions will have a better chance of resisting the siren call of college leftism.

In general, Prager writes, young people who are taught character, not given a false sense of “self-esteem,” have the best chance to remain sensibly conservative.

Overall, Prager tells conservative parents, don’t fret.  “It is not all that hard,” he says, “to produce a son or daughter able to withstand left-wing indoctrination.”  It just takes some doing.