Posted on 03/11/2017 4:15:39 AM PST by C19fan
Miami Beach Police are taking a stand against thousands of rowdy college students who flock to South Beach for Spring Break and trash the sandy shores with litter from their epic partying. Across the country, city officials of coastal destinations are bracing for a storm of twenty-somethings to descend upon their beaches for weeks of drinking, dancing and mischief.
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The Negress with the biggest butt is west African.
Fake news
The Amish in Miami are not wild, they are feral
I have no horse in this race (yet), but as a supervisor I suspect the “honors” program is meant to separate (after graduation) serious students from affirmative actions getting “attendance” degrees (since it is practically illegal for a professor to give an affirmative action student a low grade).
I have a BA in a business field, and now regularly encounter people with the same with practically no knowledge of it. In fact, a “preferred minority” co-worker got a master’s degree (from a state school here in NJ that lost its accreditation), and knows practically nothing - they just sold him an expensive piece of paper. Colleges can either continue trying to sell undergraduate degrees that mean nothing, or they can separate them between real degrees (earned by white & Asian men) and suspect degrees (those possibly earned by preferred minorities).
On the loan issue, when that 30-ish woman recently fell off the escalator in the World Trade Center and died, a gofundme-type account was set up to help her parents pay off her student loans (for which they apparently were on the hook). A couple I know had to sell their home because their son was unable to make payments on his loans (for which they also were on the hook); scary stuff! Colleges in my area were always trying to attract foreign students because Americans in general have been fleeing NJ for years; now they are putting that advertising into overdrive because so few young Americans believe they will ever recoup those college costs in the McJob economy. They’ve watched for years how American wages are suppressed (either by sending the work elsewhere or importing foreigners to do it for less), and have no confidence that they’ll ever make a lot of money.
Who can blame them? I think more highly of the youngster who knows that than one who just borrows massive amounts to “play high school” for a bit longer. The “student loan forgiveness” push by Dems will have more support with each passing year...
Places that were built on tourism are realizing all tourism isn’t equal - especially when dealing with people accustomed to paying for nothing...
Just another reason why these 20-somethings must earn their way into college, and earn their way through college.
That means work, and lots of it. Physical labor for money, and actually reading, researching, and studying for grades. Leaving little time or desire for nonsense.
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Time to exercise my bragging rights! After graduating HS, I immediately started working a full-time job and worked until I retired 50 years later. At age 18 I started at the local community college, graduated and transferred to the state university, graduated and enrolled in a post-graduate program at a private university where I received a Master’s Degree. Never had a student loan and never asked Mommy or Daddy to pay a dime toward my education.
Self respect is an increasingly unknown virtue.
Nope, a lot is paid by using student loan money.
Which you and I will be on the hook for eventually.
Somebody’s got to pay for voting for Trump.
Sadly you and I (and our children) are financing this, as student loans are used to pay for this.
Not these kid's parents. The kids who can't afford to go on Spring Break - it's their parents paying.
This is exactly what occurred in our school district.
A rather heavily pigmented crowd, just how many are truly college students?
Being that, I assume, you still actually live in New Jersey, you have my sympathies. I always refer to NJ as a place you hear people are FROM (in that they had the good sense to leave).
My sister finally fled NJ, about ten years ago now, to live in South Carolina. Doesn’t go back except to visit grandchildren (which is increasingly difficult to arrange as they are graduating high school and leaving the family home).
On the loan repayment, just to be clear, the daughters were only responsible for repaying the $15k or so in Stafford student looans made to each of them. Certainly a manageable amount and they did pay them off.
The Stafford Parent Plus loans were made to us, the parents, and our daughters never were on the hook to repay them. The benefit to us was a federally mandated and backed low interest rate on what would otherwise have been an expensive personal loan. There were several years when they overlapped in college where my yearly school loan for the two was equivalent to the purchase price of a mid-range new car.
Yes, I’m still here (and probably will be at least until the parents and in-laws pass on); I’ve heard that about people in far places being “from Jersey”.
Thanks for explaining the loan types; I’ll be crossing that bridge eventually. I like the comparison to “a raise” when they’re paid off; like making the last payment on a vehicle (with really high monthly payments)...
Miami Beach is already overrun with local thuggery from Lincoln road south
Pathetic
It’s like the French quarter
Political correctness stops cops from cleaning it up
Great real estate on Miami Beach
Lost
Family vacations have gone north to Hollywood and Hallandale Dania or even further
My wife loves the deco hotels on Collins but after all the tribals last year were giving it up
For winter Beach we go to Captiva now
Blacks from same median income levels as whites have graduation rates below 45%
Overall it’s less than one third graduate from four year programs
It’s a waste of tax dollars and college resources
The black dropout rate in college in Tennessee after two years on Hope Scholarships is about 50% a year and that rate continues even for juniors and seniors
Almost thrice the rate for whites
But what do we expect with low 80s median IQ and nobody fails school anymore
And pissoff dysfunctional upbringing by women who can’t handle them
Not everybody has to go to college
A two million strong Boko Haram
Sounds great
The old Cubans fought back at the bridges in the McDuffy riots when whites were dragged from vehicles and raped or beheaded
These new hipster Cubans ain’t got no Brigada Asalto 2506 guts
I watched riots in Overtown and Wynwood from the 20th floor of my Brickell digs in 88/89
Fires and whirlybirds and sirens
I had a black dually with Mississippi plates and confederate battle flag stickers
I’d go deep hood to get workers to scrub the ships and stuff and to get my maid
And nobody said a damn thing
I’d park my car and get our maid and we’d drop her little kids at school and I’d go pick them up in the bad part of Coconut Grove
A bad bad bad pocket between Dixie hwy and the Grove itself
Never an issue
If I told Miami folks today I did that they’d think I was crazy
I honestly think college should be something that only people in their late twenties and early thirties go to. If you’re young, get a trade and work your backside off.
The county line between Broward and Collier County, in the middle of the Everglades. This was long before Alligator Alley became a superhighway, when it was a two-lane blacktop with a canal on both sides, the dredged dirt used to create the road.
"And don't come back!"
That must have been no fun at all for the vagrant.
In my experience, former military enlisted in their mid-twenties make the best college students. They already have the discipline and time management down pat.
I’m sorry to hear it. What happened in our district, and I’m sure it happens in all school of choice districts, is that most of the students we got were from the inner city and they were kids who were expelled from their previous schools. Our policy was not to take anyone who had been expelled, however, the board office could never find the records of the students who sought to enroll, and we ended up taking them anyway, pending. Parents “looking to place their kids in a better school” is largely a myth. As I said, they’re usually kids who’ve been expelled. And that’s what you’re inviting in.
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