Posted on 07/15/2021 6:31:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Charlotte, NC — Democrats continue to make the argument that we should have student loan forgiveness and provide free education to those who choose to pursue a college degree. While I agree there is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to better yourself and educate yourself, I have a big problem with free education.
Especially in light of the most recent reports from Fox News. Davidson College, a university in North Carolina, has decided to offer an Abolish the Police Course. According to the report, the course will aim “to take a philosophical look at the relationship between Blackness and policing in the U.S., according to a course description.” It’s a socialist dream come true.
Now I would love for someone to explain to me what this course will do in regards to helping someone in their professional career? Will it help you learn how to produce or sell more widgets? Does it help you learn how to cure a disease? My guess, and I guess I should say it’s purely speculative, is that this course does absolutely nothing to help you in a career.
What it does accomplish, however, is the absolute waste of tuition, time, and a potential educational opportunity. Someone could take this time to learn a trade that will pay them a six-figure salary, but instead, they are told they should attend college to “better themselves.”
It takes students thousands of dollars into debt in order to “satisfy the requirements of social and scientific thought and for Africana and Sociology majors.” All for a course that teaches them nothing but radical left-wing theology. No doubt it’s considered foundational teaching for critical race theory.
This is the reason that tuition to college should not be free. Democrats would love nothing more than taxpayers to provide free, brainwashing college education to build on their infiltration of the public school system of our nation.
Did I mention that this class does nothing to help someone in a career that contributes to society?
How does learning about nonexistent systemic racism, unfounded oppressive policing, and foundational inequality contribute to society? It doesn’t because those things are simply imaginary ideas promoted by the radical left and their propaganda spewing partners of the mainstream media.
The truth is that this was is not about giving someone an education or helping them improve themselves. If that were the case, we would actually be finding ways to help people to improve themselves. Instead, the radical left argues for ways to continue its Marxist agenda under the guise of “education.”
While there are many good college degrees that can benefit someone’s career, this makes a mockery of such education.
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Soon every teacher in the US will be LGBQT and teaching the leftist doctrine so campuses will be ghost towns anyway.Businesses will recruit directly from high school and offer their own training programs.The left always destroys itself.
Like the Medieval Guilds........................
The reason for all this need for advanced degrees is to keep the students in school longer and suck in more cash in the form of tuition. Advanced degrees are not needed for most jobs and occupations. An engineer with a basic 4 year BS degree is typically just as competent and productive as someone with a PhD.
There is no need for credential creep in our society and job market.
Of course Democrats want college to be free so more people can go to college. That is where conservative leaning students are turned into liberals and liberal students are turned into radicals.
In addition, we already have free education K-12, yet millions of students don’t learn much of anything while at K-12 anymore. Why just continue the free learningless “education” for four more years.
Easy credit permitted students to get loan balances that the degrees they received did not generate the income to repay the loans. Anya Kamenetz wrote a book entitled Generation Debt that explained the problem. The sad part is after her experience with debt from an Ivy League College, her parents did a repeat with her younger sister. It really sucks when you do not learn from your mistakes.
The debt was the worst in the social sciences, and also problematic in medical education where debt was also high. This resulted in loan payments that many students could not repay in their lifetime. Some of us were frugal, worked as much as we could and kept up our grades. In my case, I worked in a lab as an undergraduate and lived modestly. My graduate education was funded by a research associate position where I could live off my stipend. My wife and I did have some debt that we paid of over ten years. We lived modestly while we paid off the debt and continue to be frugal.
I highly recommend for students considering taking on a lot of debt watch a few of the Dave Ramsey videos on YouTube where students who overspent learned how to dig out of the hole.
Why am I not surprised?.....................
Unforunately they’ll have to figue out a work around for the Griswold vs Duke Power USSC decision. That’s what has forced the “requirement” of “college-degree-for-everything”.
The purpose of liberal arts courses are to teach you that liberal arts courses are important. LOL
There are several things you are not mentioning.
1) IT degrees and jobs. Students are lied to that getting an IT degree will yield them with a high paying job. This lures people in but the reality that has become somewhat stained by the increase of various work Visas where outsourcing has become a country’s number one GDP for that country (India for example, not only in IT but also healthcare and is starting to if not already bleeding into other industries). Foreign work and education visas have become major industries for countries like India and the Philippines. A good majority of these people are put into a 6 week intensive training program, focusing on the interview, with doctored up resumes.
2) Schools are taking monies from other governments than the USA to increase their research budgets. Higher learning institutions have learned long ago the student was not the money maker and that research and fund raising was.
3) Out of state students, US Citizens, pay almost twice as much as an in-state student. Illegal immigrants are treated as in-state students.
And I could go on.
We should flip the script and demand that corrupt colleges reduce their overinflated charges and refund past overpayments.
First of all, they are a four-year college. NO grad school. So they're not trying to keep students in school longer.
Second, when my daughter went there it was a very rigorous education. Plus they were a very tolerant (in the best sense of the word) school and welcomed all viewpoints.
The funny thing is, when my daughter was there, the college police chief was a very large, very black man (he was also a first class LE guy). Wonder how he would feel about this course (he's not there any more, they've had two chiefs since him).
That should be dooable if congress has the courage to take on the higher ed industry. Ha!
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