Posted on 03/05/2010 1:20:47 PM PST by Maelstorm
(CNN) -- All this month, we will see thousands of college students from coast to coast, north to south, east to west, jumping up and down, yelling, screaming, pumping fists, sleeping outside in tents, painting their faces -- all a result of the usual frenzy surrounding March Madness.
That's the scene we see every year when college basketball teams are fighting and clawing their way to one of the precious 65 seeds that enter the NCAA Tournament.
But instead of doing all of that for basketball, these same students should say the heck with the games and put their energy, zeal and passion into two fundamental issues posing the most dramatic barriers to their college education: the rising cost of tuition and the lack of financial aid.
On Thursday, we saw students begin this process by leading rallies in cities nationwide to protest rising tuition costs. While our political leaders in Washington, D.C., are decrying the rising cost of health care, college tuition is exploding across the nation, from community colleges to technical schools to four-year public and private schools.
Education leaders say it's all about the economy, but when the cost of tuition is jacked up as high as 30 percent in some states, and so many parents are without jobs or are facing wage cutbacks, their children see no hope. Often they postpone school or cut back on hours they take per semester -- delays that keep the student from being able to graduate and find a good-paying job.
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As for the other education cuts on the state and local level. I feel nothing for them. Schools don't need 10 secretaries, they don't need ipod touches for every child, and schools built to the cost of millions of dollars that look like shopping malls. Learning doesn't require the best of everything with no cost spared.
It would be good if our nation of spoiled more liberal brats would learn the value hard work, the value of money, and that in the real world you don't get your way if you can't afford to pay.
Has anyone asked these students...”If there’s no money, what do you expect us to do? We’re willing to listen.”
“If you think education is expensive try ignorance.”
I always tell my children not to complain without a proposing an alternative solution.
Nice whitewashing Roland. They were rioting.
“If you think education is expensive try ignorance.”
Can I use this as my tagline. AWESOME!!!!
No comments from the media about greedy college professors? Nothing about tenure for unqualified or lazy teachers or their generous benefit packages? Oh that’s right, they’re libs.
I worked for a guy like that in electronics. You best not come to him with a problem with out telling him what you would do. He would then analyze what you would do and help you out. If you didn’t know what to do, he would say “Go and find out for yourself then come back.”
“I always tell my children not to complain without a proposing an alternative solution.”
Cut salaries of staff by 50% across the board and freeze them. Same for benefit packages and retirement.
That is what people don’t understand that when the cost of obtaining an object or service from the beneficiary of the object is removed it causes the normal gravity represented by cost to be detached. This leaves the value of the object to drift steadily higher because their is no incentive for the provider of the object or service to manage his or her own cost of providing the object or service. It ends up with a cycle of inflation which we see in education and medical cost.
And housing.
Education is as free as a public library. It is only expensive because of an increasing education fiefdom that sees no limit to its own largess. I believe education would be much better if the fat was cut out. They could be saving money cutting those worthless women’s studies programs.
Sure, it’s not an original.
“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
exactly housing is the same thing. The economy works when things have real measurable value that equate to the blood, sweat, and tears that it takes to pay for them. Our entitlement society is screwing up the works for everyone and making it harder for those who otherwise could afford to take care of themselves just fine by resulting in inflated often limited options all in the name of “helping the less fortunate”. The result is a market where the less fortunate can not buy a house they can really afford, can not get an education they really can afford, and can’t get medical insurance they can really afford. What bureaucracy always does is limit the market to narrow increasingly costly choices.
two word solution:
G.I. Bill
They pay us, then we pay them....
How about raising the limit employers can pay for employees’ education before the 40% tax kicks in? Right now its capped at $5250 for a given year. For a Master's degree that's about 4 classes per year, then the student pays the remaining 40% the employer can't pay, by law, for the remainder of the year.
And what an incredible scam college books are. The last year and a half of my Masters program I didn't buy any of the books. The teachers didn't teach from it! Somehow, I ended up with a 3.71 gpa.
I knew a lady who was in that business and she said the publishers let professors author a chapter in their new book and in return, the prof has to ensure the college changes to the new book the following year. How is it that math books change every couple of years?! ITS MATH!
rant over...
I agree totally. And it is interesting that many Dems complain about the cost of healthcare and how some doctors make too much, but no one says anything about the increasing cost of higher education, yet no one complains that a professor makes too much. Hmmm, I’d hate to think it’s because college campuses are full of liberal activists.
Thanks
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