Posted on 03/22/2019 4:25:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
That’s about what I told my poor daughter when she was stressing about whether she would get admitted to a state school—her private school “college counselor” was asininedly sowing doubt. Honey look, if you want to go there and we can pay the tuition, you’ll get admitted. Which she of course was and is now about to graduate.
For most it is simply day care with sex and alcohol. No need for the government to subsidize it. Subsidizing it just drives up the price faster than inflation.
Or look at trade school as well.
And people, listen. We need to get the state out of our marriages. Have a marriage ceremony without a license. Please.
Whirlwind: Here's $250,000. Selectively enroll MY child.
Yup
It made sense to keep kids in school longer when the employment rate was higher.
Kept them from runnin’ the streets!
The Minerva Schools is essentially a scholarship for a tiny, for-profit, venture-funded Silicon Valley-type thing done under the Claremont Colleges. So of course lots of applicants and able students.
Still interesting, however, as to how they apply online seminars and weave in MOOCs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Schools_at_KGI
I have a renter who has $200,000 of school debt. She has a masters in art education. She got a job in the highest paid art teacher’s venue, New York. The payments on her school loans took half her paycheck. She said she was unable to live in New York on the remainder, so she quit. She is doing something I didn’t know existed, she spends the day listing ads for Amazon products on Facebook accounts. When somebody clicks on it she gets a payment. When somebody buys something she gets a percentage. Although she pays taxes on the income there is no doubt in my mind that, eventually, the government will be able to garnish virtually all non-cash income to repay those loans. Also, when she “retires” the government will garnish her social security payments.
Mona the Never Trumper Prissy Uptight Lady chimes in. Undoubtedly, she sent her crumb crunchers to the best schools possible.
So if the number of high school graduates attending college has increased, and the percentage graduating with four-year degrees has increased only a little, that still means an increase in the number of college graduates.
I work at a university so I will pull rank on you. The Computer Science/Business IT, Accounting and Engineering programs are brutal. Our largest school is the College of Business and half the grads are IT/Programming.
We don’t offer Underwater Basket Weaving majors. Even Theater majors graduate knowing how to do carpentry because they have to take Set Building.
If you want a “relaxed” college career, there are schools for that. Most of them are private colleges.
A friend of mine said that his son, who is taking over his one-man plumbing business, will be a multi-millionair within just a few years. He said he will be make it by being a plumber, not because of his college degree.
The cost of attending some of these elite schools is $300K or more for a 4 year degree. I didn’t realize it was that high at USC.
Even many of the not-so-bright students figured out that student loan interest rates are much lower than credit cards. Party on!
We went to Oklahoma State University 1969 - 1973. Graudated on time with our degrees. I PAID MY OWN WAY.
Husband was a Chemical Engineer for over 40 years. They didn’t learn gobbledy gook back then, they learned science, math - like calculus, physics, thermodynamics, differential equations, (he hated biochemistry). You couldn’t get professors to change your grade, etc. I missed a Drawing Class for a week, in hospital - doctor almost killed me with penicillin - fatal allergy to that. My drawing teacher lowered my grade from an A to a B. Said “you missed a week of class” no matter I was almost dead, in a hospital. Rules were Rules back then.
Our daughter was at UT. She screwed up one semester, bad grades. She convinced an adviser that it was because she broke up with her fiance. He wasn’t her “fiance” and she dumped him. She already had a new boyfriend and didn’t care a whit about the old one. They let her erase all her grades for that entire semester. Of Course, she wasn’t paying, we were. We should have made her drop out or pay her own way after that episode!
Brother in law went to OSU also and got his degree and certification in Veterinary science. He wouldn’t have put up with any of the nonsense colleges are teaching today. He was a great vet!
Well, well...... rational sanity
Let’s hear now from the FReeper education bashers who being uneducated bash all colleges
bfl
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