Posted on 01/18/2009 10:34:57 AM PST by Graybeard58
The below sums it up -- one of the few times I've *ever* agreed with Doonesbury:
Cheers!
Hog wash, go to a state college or university...they are cheep.
Send him to India, 4k for 4 years, Food and Roof
We continue to import workers from the third world, and companies have been hiring these workers for executive positions, nothing wrong with it anymore.
Thank you! My son is going to college this fall. He will stay in state and we will pay for it. What ever happened to your kid getting a job to help pay for it? There are also thousands of scholarships available.
Nothing wrong with junior college for the first couple of years. The credits are usually fully transferable to finish undergraduate and graduate work elsewhere with a overall great savings of money.
Nothing wrong with junior college for the first couple of years. The credits are usually fully transferable to finish undergraduate and graduate work elsewhere with a overall great savings of money.
a) That college is not affordable or
b) Students are not ready?
Not as cheap as they once were. I paid my own way through college by working. NO loans.
I’m not so sure that can be done today.
Even though many won’t have the funds to pay “up front”, unless things are tremendously different from now (and of course they could be), most students who really want to attend college are eligible for student loans and/or work study. Really good students qualify for scholarships.
That said, as a part time college instructor, I’m amazed at how the learners’ attitudes have changed over the past decade. On my recent instructor evaluations, some students stated they thought it was unfair to have to take notes in class. They claimed doing so was distracting and “boring”. So, basically, they wanted the PowerPoint handouts given to them, but not really discussed/reviewed, and then to be entertained during class time.
I think many educators have caved in to the demands for watered-down curriculum and expectations. Some may fear negative student ratings. Not sure if we’re past the point of no return, but some days it seems like it.
p.s. Watch “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”
How many Ivy League MBA’s does it take to run a Wall Street firm into the ground?
Yeah but they stay home, continue to eat your food and take up space.
The large Mexican/Central American youth population, combined with the plateauing and lower middle class whites and the continued academic underachievement of American blacks are the keys to understanding why so many schools are failing. It has nothing to do with "liberal" versus "conservative' (as the lib families in my area push their kids to be academic overachievers) or "religious" versus "secular." Its a question of culture and the importance of achievement in the academic sphere.
Liberals will never attack Big Education with the same enthusiasm in which they attack Big everything else. Stinkn hypocrites!
Yes, why doesn’t the author consider University of Connecticut, since she live in Connecticut?
Total tuition, room, board, and fees at the main campus: $18,842.
Total tuition and fees at satellite campuses: $7,754. (Have the kid commute from home.)
http://www.admissions.uconn.edu/tuition/index.php
(I do agree with her main argument that college costs are out of control, but she seems to be limiting her possibilities to private universities.)
Get the first two years out of the road at a community college. Even cheaper.
True but what is. They are still cheep. Get a job borrow money, if you want to go go.
I worked my way through, took six years but so what. The day I graduated I only owed $500.
He could join the military, get the G.I. Bill and go to college for free, but his mother would probably rather he shave his head and join Hiri Krishna. Also, there’s a college in the Missouri Ozarks where all students have to work for their tuition: http://www.cofo.edu/future.asp
This is ludicrous. Yes, if you’re determined for some reason to send your child to Harvard, you may have a problem. But if you have serious financial issues, then send him to a junior college for two years and then on to State U. Believe me, five years down the road his employers are not going to care where he got his undergraduate degree. It’s really only important where he goes to graduate school, not undergrad. To finance the undergraduate education he can get grants, scholarships, and loans to pay for it, live in the dorm, and hold one or two part-time jobs.
To finance grad school he will probably have to do a TAship or research assistantship and scramble around for some additional money, but so what. Kids are young and energetic and most of ‘em need to spend less time drinking and partying anyway.
Trust me, if our one-parent family can do it, anybody can do it. People need to stop whining.
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