We are still paying off El Hubbo’s law school loans. We have paid twice what we borrowed, and we are still paying them.
El Hubbo has opined that this is a racket; the law schools, loan companies, and bar association are in cahoots.
The law schools tantalize with huge tuition schools that, should you get through them, promise a lucrative career.
The loan companies take advantage of the fact that you can’t get government loans so you have to get private loans. The work load at law school is too high for all but the most energetic and bright to work outside of school. So, you borrow, because you have been accepted and have a bright career ahead of you.
Then the Bar Association makes sure that less than half of you are ever accepted to the bar. Its essay questions are arbitrarily decided, so even if you get all the answers right on everything else, you may never pass the bar, because some reader somewhere didn’t like your essays. They could have been brilliant. But you’ll never know.
If anyone out there wants to be a lawyer, be warned. Go into it with your eyes open.
The law schools tantalize with huge tuition schools that, should you get through them, promise a lucrative career.
It's true for every 'profession' which advocates that process before there is any actual practice. Business should train their employees themselves, and education should be for those who want to learn for the sake of learning. Otherwise you get this huge amount of wasted time, effort, cash and misdirection. This creates a loss of faith which is followed by a loss of integrity.
The irony of it all is that then our government, which has destroyed any of the value which we have earned in our cash, then tells us that we must accept our fate, and pay for a re-education to get a new job.
But most of this problem is the result of the loss of our middle class. Who can afford lawyers? Only the very wealthy now.