Should unemployed grads sue their universities?
I've been thinking lately about the problem of the glut of unemployed college graduates.
The Marxist non-solution is yet another bail-out: to forgive student loan debt.
However, this does not address the real problem.
Universities are viewed, rightly or wrongly, as the gateway to better jobs.
Students and their families go into ridiculous debt based on this implied promise.
Yet, when at university, students do not receive the training needed to succeed in the business world.
Instead, they are indoctrinated in the ways of anti-business agitation.
Soon, if it hasn't happened already, employers will begin to realize that hiring anyone with a non-tech degree or *any* Ivy League degree is risking hiring an anti-business agitator.
Google has already stated that they prefer hiring people who have not attended college because they are more intellectually curious.
At what point should unemployed grads sue their universities for fraud?
Your thoughts are welcome.
The Marxist non-solution is yet another bail-out: to forgive student loan debt.
However, this does not address the real problem.
Universities are viewed, rightly or wrongly, as the gateway to better jobs.
Students and their families go into ridiculous debt based on this implied promise.
Yet, when at university, students do not receive the training needed to succeed in the business world.
Instead, they are indoctrinated in the ways of anti-business agitation.
Soon, if it hasn't happened already, employers will begin to realize that hiring anyone with a non-tech degree or *any* Ivy League degree is risking hiring an anti-business agitator.
Google has already stated that they prefer hiring people who have not attended college because they are more intellectually curious.
At what point should unemployed grads sue their universities for fraud?
Your thoughts are welcome.
Baloney! The 'kids' should have gotten that education from their parents some time after they stopped wetting their beds (the kids' wetting their beds, that is! :) ).
I've mentioned this before to little avail, but keep in mind the free-market truism... "if there are too many students having trouble paying back their student loans, JUST MAYBE those loans were too EASY to get?"
If we've got a glut of student-loan bankruptcies, just MAYBE subsidized loan rates were NOT a 'good idea' in the first place?
Are all the free-marketeers gone from here?
"Everyone" bitches about lousy workmanship by their plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc., but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of Vo-Tech training to find the kids who'd meet those market demands and deliver high-quality services at the same time!
There's money to be made in those industries if the 'good money chases out the bad' but there's some kind of market-feedback loop that's broken.
You could always make this your winter Gulch. It never gets really hot here, but it is consistently nice from October to April.
We are at the cold spot in the summer within Florida.
Chuckle!
http://business.time.com/2013/11/10/the-...
shouldn't a potential student (and parents footing the bill) expect that part of his CORE classes (required for graduation) should be some coursework addressing these skills? Are they supposed to pick up these skills in the student union? I think many of these skills can be honed by working one's way through college, but the ease of getting the student loans allows thousands of students to not have to work while attending.
Please take some time to read the restatement of my case here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/17...
Especially opposition point 6
I have personally experienced different levels of education.
In an effort to get a "good name" on my education transcript, I did a postgrad year at a private school after four years of public high-school.
I had four years of Latin under my belt.
I had earned nothing less than an A- for each semester for all four years.
I wanted to take another year of Latin.
It was suggested that I take Latin 3.
I was insulted because, in my mind, I was ready for Latin 5.
At my insistence, I was placed in Latin 4, and promptly failed spectacularly.
When you are getting education, you are in a position where you have no choice but to trust that what you are receiving is high quality.
And if it is not high quality, and it is not blatanly inept, you will probably never know that it is sub-par until reality later smacks you in the face.
That said, please take some time to read the restatement of my case here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/17...
For example, ""I CHOSE to continue with my education and do everything in my power to apply my knowledge into that field. If my best efforts get me nowhere, that is not my university's fault."
Unless, of course, the education that they gave you, without your realization, was crap."
I think that any reasonably intelligent college student can recognize crap when he (or she) sees it.
I, for one, went to Purdue for one year and left to pursue an Associates degree at a technical college. Even in the 1960's crap was easily discerned. For example, Purdue offered a NON-credit course called "Engineering Orientation" that meant nothing to me since I already know which discipline I wanted to tackle, however, you couldn't graduate with out passing it. How did you pass it you ask? By attending at least 90% of the classes. Oh, and it was the only course that ever started at 7:30 AM, 3 days a week. I got out while the getting was good.
As a result of the Associates degree, I was able to spent almost 60 years working with computers of one sort or another. Now, I've retired as few companies want *individual* contributors any more. It's all about "teams" (the collective) and the politics of it all made the field no fun anymore.
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