Posted on 06/28/2019 12:02:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“...Some cone head, somewhere, decided that students needed to be taught the Humanities in order to be “better” citizens....”
I visited with the head of the Mechanical Engineering dept. at my old Alma Mater not too long ago. He told be to be thankful that I went thru when I did. I asked why? He said that now, due to the demands of the SJWs, undergraduate engineering students are now forced to take 18 semester-hours of SJW classes!!! I asked if the SJW students needed to take 18 hours of engineering and he busted a gut laughing out loud and said, “No, they’d all flunk.” He said that they forced it on them thru the accreditation body. In order for the department to stay accredited, they had to do it.
That’s 18 hours wasted on useless BS that should be going towards engineering electives. To get the old-style undergraduate engineering degree today, a student now has to go on to graduate school (more $$$ and time) all due to the BS from lib SJWs. Like I said, liberalism destroys everything it touches...everything.
Yes that’s true. My daughter’s friend made it worse for herself to be with her boyfriend she went a nursing school halfway across the country. After a year it lost it’s accreditation & they broke up. She finished at a university near her home (Lived at home!) now is getting married. she paid for the local college by being an EMT. (Paid out of pocket for that training!) EMT & college- Hard row to hoe, long hours, weird hours but now probably the nurse you would want in an emergency! Getting married soon different guy.
Agree!
I know a few kids who want to be vets so they can be around animals; mostly pets, not farm animals. I tell them all to learn to groom dogs with the plan to start their own shop. They can save eight years of tuition and start earning money immediately. No student loans.
In my semi rural area you can’t get an appointment for weeks, and Saturdays are 2 -3 months out. At $40-50 apiece, with not much overhead, and less than a vet’s office, those folks are making a dang good living. Adding a kennel and fancy treats are other revenue streams.
Add the layers and layers of administrators at $100,000+ a year to the cost.
What the hell do colleges/universities care what their students think. The government is paying the bill with massive student loans. They could care less what the students or parent think.
...No job openings for African culture studies
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What about women’s studies, Feminism, Gender studies? They all can’t be not hiring.
And yet, the degrees are no walk in the park! Computers and the software that runs on them are just too complicated. How many large tech companies are not a technical disaster scene, behind the scenes?
Yep! Leftists should be shipped to a deserted island. The extra costs associated with their evil is unbelievable.
Come on up to Detroit.... you cannot beg borrow or steal an engineer
Quote Heinlein - they’ll never speak to you again. :)
"There is a ready solution for anyone on the public payroll who feels that he is not paid enough: He can resign and work for a living. This applies with equal force to Congressmen, Welfare 'clients', school teachers, generals, garbage collectors, and judges." -- Robert A. Heinlein
The response would be “Who’s Heinlein?”
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It’s because they are bringing over so many Indian techs it depresses the salaries. You cannot find a job in tech in a large corporation where one half to two thirds of the staff aren’t Indian.
It’s new in that just 40 years ago nobody was being told they had to go to college to succeed. Maybe you’re too young to know.
Not entirely true. My daughter did extremely well in high school earning advanced IB credits in calculus, physics government, etc. She had multiple academic scholarship offers from 3 universities. The advanced credits allowed her to finish a 5-year music education program in 4 years. She is now a public school elementary music teacher. She is paid ok, but she also loves it. Loves teaching children to sing and play instruments. A lot of teachers have no regrets, because they love teaching kids.
I dimly recall that the law was changed around 2002. Student debt used to be dischargable. I wonder if lawmakers intended to have the current abusive situation.
Before 2002. It was Bill Clinton who made it non-dischargeable.
If you're cluelles, someone will rip you off. Why is education any different?
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