Too many colleges are promising that you have a great opportunities after graduation. Most graduates in the last 10 years have found themselves working in jobs that don’t require a college degree. They ended up financially worse off because of student loans.
Most colleges have too many bigoted professors. These professors are making racist and political statements while teaching. Then students get a lower grade if they don’t write a paper that satisfies the professors racist and political views. That’s discrimination and these colleges need to be sued for it.
It’s time for people to stand up to this system that is selling snake oil. A college education was good for Baby Boomers, but not Generation X and Millennials. Most Generation X and Millennials have seen their jobs go to HB1 Visa candidates brought into this country by the Baby Boomer politicians.
The main reason for college tuition going up in the past 15 years is because Baby Boomers have a lot of high prices pensions to pay out to themselves. Many are getting the same exact amount of money they made during the high point of their career. I read the other day an Oregon college football coach making $559,000 a year in pension payments. You wonder why your college tuition is so high? There it is.
It’s time to sue colleges and end this horrendous system of racism, anti-intellectualism and financial abuse.
You can find sources all over the internet and at your local Starbucks. I know three people working as security guards who have college degrees. One has a Masters degree in Psychology and she’s trying to get a job, but she can’t because she doesn’t have the experience. The other has a Masters degree in IT and can’t get a job because HB1 Visas brought in by the Baby Boomers running congress have taken the IT jobs. The other one had a Bachelors degree in Anthropology and he went to community college to start taking classes to become a nurse so he could get a better paying job.
in a general sense I agree with the OP’s thoughts about college. Outrageously expensive and rising in price far faster than inflation. Anecdotally I can say that it does seem to be very true that many, I mean at least a large minority, of grads are working at jobs that do not require a college degree. Off the top of my head- they are working at check-in for Planet Fitness, short order cook, Check-out counter at WE Got Soccer, on and on. That’s a real phenomenon whether or not Op provides a link to a supporting piece of literature. Grads are coming out with crushing debt and colleges in general should be more up front about what grads can realistically expect to make upon graduation.
Colleges and Universities and their professors are overwhelmingly liberal. No supporting literature should be necessary for that but you can search the internet for studies and polls that will prove it.
Finally, @Sue22 , since outrageous prices for college are nationwide and now even public schools are quite expensive, it is difficult if not impossible to “vote with your feet” as you imply.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen “promises” of great opportunities after college, or whether I would ever believe anyone’s crystal ball as to what’s in the future.
As to bigoted professors, surely you can find out about them on any of a bunch of sites where kids review their schools and professors? I think this is yet another case of “buyer beware.”
You can only be sold snake oil if you’re willing to buy it.
Sure, I absolutely wish college were cheaper. And it could be-- my kids could all attend the local community college-- I went there and had a great experience-- and then choose to commute to the state university 10 minutes away. But we chose other options… after doing our homework and knowing the pros and cons.
To quote an old commercial: “An educated consumer is our best customer.” In choosing colleges, as in anything else you commit your money to, you’ve got to do your homework ahead of time.
You can certainly sue the college you’re so angry at. And you can absolutely find a lawyer who will be happy to take your case-- and your money. But I sense, strongly, that in a few month there would be another post on a forum railing against lawyers who take your money without telling you that your lawsuit is frivolous and doesn’t stand a chance of winning.
Finally, as a math teacher, I can’t give any credibility to claims of “most” or “all” without the accompanying sources. Show me the statistics, and I’ll consider your argument. Otherwise I’ll have to call it a vent.
Wow @thomas4881, you sound really angry and disappointed. If your degree will be of no value to you, then you have the choice not to attend college, take one of those jobs that doesn’t require a degree, and avoid student loans. One of the wonderful things about being American is having freedom and choices.
I have a small sample of 6 nephews and a niece, all recent college graduates, all working in professional positions as the result of their degrees except one who worked in her profession for four years and is in graduate school now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/07/01/still-questioning-whether-college-is-worth-it-read-this/
The above link says:
Out of the 11.6 million jobs created in the post-recession economy, 11.5 million went to people with at least some college education. Of those jobs, 8.4 million went to workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher. People with a high school diploma or less education landed 80,000 jobs in the recovery, the report said.
…and goes on to say that low-skilled jobs are the only growth area for workers with a high school diploma or less. A paltry 80,000 of those jobs were created…
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