Dems do not understand morality. Its all about “feeling good.” So, ruining the country for the next generation is not thought about -— because you wouldn’t “feel good.”
No discipline, no morality. All Obama!
“commitment to education”
For his own children. The others that would like to use some sort of voucher programs can go pound salt as far as he’s concerned. After all, his best “victims” for socialism DEPENDS on large masses of uneducated populace.
It takes a lot of dough to keep profs in their comfy lifestyles, teaching courses such as Womyn's Studies, Gender Studies, and Diversity/Multicultural Studies.
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The laws of supply and demand play a role in this as does the normal bell curve distribution of intelligence and ability.
Filling schools up with Affirmative Action students and low performers who would not otherwise be clogging up the system is a real problem. The idea that every student is college material is politically correct claptrap.
Not only does this artificially create extra demand for financing, class space, etc. It also increases costs by creating a need to expand remedial tutoring, to dumb down some instruction, and reduce standards of performance.
OTH, we end up with one of the most highly and expensively educated force of burger flippers imaginable.
According to a recent info from the College Board:
the AVERAGE cost for college tuition has gone up a cumulative 944% since 1978 ($655 to $6,185), which is nearly 300% greater than the cumulative rate of inflation during the same period (336%).
If a gallon of regular gasoline ($1.78 in 1978) had just kept up with the rate of increase in college tuition during the same period, it would sell for more than $12.00 a gallon today.
[P.S. At just the rate of inflation, 1978-2008, $4.00 a gallon gas would be about normal.]
Yet, the U.S. Congress holds Soviet show trials condeming “greedy” private American oil companies, but when Mr. Obama’s friends from academia come calling, Congress just has one question: “How much?”
Additionally, not a single legislative proposal from a single Democrat, on the subject of college tuition, has ever actually proved to LOWER tuition. Everyone of their proposals seeks NOT to lower tuition, just insure the outrageous tuition gets paid shifting more of the payment to taxpayers.
NO MORE NEW PELL GRANTS should be given, except to education institutions that LOWER tuition costs, 5% a year for the next five years.
Maybe some tenured college professors would actually have to devote more than their current average of six hours a week to actually teaching classes; and maybe academic health and pension benefits would move down closer to the median possible for the average private sector worker.
As it is private sector workers have been paying the salaries of a bloated college education industrial complex and funding, with their wages, health and pension benefits for academia that the average private sector worker will never see in their lifetime.
It’s a crime.