(02-13-2019 05:02 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote: (02-13-2019 04:12 PM)vick mike Wrote: Unfortunately this is part of a larger anti-University and anti-education program proposed by one political party. As one politician said “I like uneducated voters.” This propaganda stretches from higher ed to elementary school and is designed to starve public education of funds and then point out that it’s not working. Truth is access to quality education is why this country has progressed the way it has over the last hundred years and helped build the greatest middle class in history. Shame some greedy mo foes want to tear it down.
It's insane how true this is. I recently got into a debate with a guy I went to high school with who is a welder in Alabama.
He constantly posts about how much (bread) he is making. And one day he posted "It's stupid to go to college when you can get a trade. I make so much more money than all of you jobless degree holders with hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loans."
So I posted the average job salary for a welder which was like $36,000 a year. And I posted the average salary of my field which is $112,000. Then he goes on this stupid rant about Democrats, inflation, my field being (desk work), and how a welder can make just as much money. And I was like really man? One Welder in the world working on some random oil rig is probably making a lot of money so that makes going to college stupid?
It's crazy how anti-education this country is becoming.
It's not "anti-education". It's anti-"higher education". The simple fact is, there are some people who have NO BUSINESS being in a college classroom. What has happened to the lower grade and high school education in this country over the last 40 years is a travesty. When I graduated high school in 1985, I knew a certain level of math, science, and literature. I knew how to make a cogent thought known through proper sentence structure.
In 2010 I went back to college for 6 straight years (that's Fall of 2010 through Spring of 2016) to get my Architect's degree. I can tell you with out a doubt, the people coming out of the 12th grade now know half as much as kids coming out of 12th grade in 1985. They cannot wright. They cannot speak. They cannot study. They do not respect authority.
This is all because the high school has replaced real discipline with "no child left behind", no homework, and no consequences. Oh, and a healthy dose of social [justice] studies.
So in turn, what has the university done to compensate? Dumbed down their standards as well. Can't read above an 8th grade level when you get to college? No problem. We have two choices for you. A remedial level class for you to actually learn what you should have learned in high school, or a prescription of Ritalin and a "disabilities" exception in a regular class so you don't have to turn in your homework on time, and an
extra two hours to take the test the rest of us had 1 1/2 hours to complete.
In the mean time, all of the social science classes are filled with anti-American "professors" (if you can call them that) whose main purpose seems to be to turn America's youth against their own country, sourly brooding all the while that they weren't around in the 60s. They imagine that "this is their 60s", and they are going to make a difference, whether one needs to be made or not.
Make no mistake. What the higher education has morphed into over the last 40 years is a desire to capture every child for 4 additional years in order to "progress" them into a higher state of "woke"... whatever the hell that means...
Now, if you want your child to get a STEM degree? Hell yes. It is totally worth it. But don't try and tell me that a sociology degree is worth the $60,000 - $100,000 of debt you end up with. Believe me. I know. I have a daughter with a sociology degree. About as worthless as titts on a boar.