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I am a 4th year junior and it will probably take me 6 to get out. I can't blame her for not being motivated about class.

First of all, there is this whole liberal arts thing. At my university, no matter what degree you go for, half the credits have to be in subjects not relating to your major. This is totally useless. Also a certain number of those credits have to be in classes that promote "diversity".

Then there are the classes themselves. Besides the liberal garbage that I have come to expect from most classes, there have been things that I could never have imagined.

For example in one class we watched a PORN movie which featured a woman with one breast having sex with a black guy. This was a real porn, total hardcore. We were told that this shows how people that are different can still live normal lives and also to promote diversity. By the way this was for ENGLISH 101. Also in that class we spent a whole day learning about the teacher's lifelong project: a homosexual version of Dungeons and Dragons. I am not making this stuff up. On another occasion, we had members of the gay and lesbian club come in to talk about accepting their culture. Keep in mind that this was done in place of learning English 101 so if you guys see any problems with my grammar or sentence structure here, you know who to blame.

I have learned more reading this site in a day than I have in 4 years of college. When I get my degree, I probably will not be able to do anything with it and I will just keep working with computers and getting computer certifications unless I decide to go to law school or grad school. So College is kind of in the eye of the beholder. I think it all depend on what your goals are. 4 years of college has provided me with a bunch of debts and no useful knowledge whatsoever.

I am often called a "slacker" because of my attitude towards school and student jobs like retail and other deadend work. Some of us just have higher goals in life and we want to try to skip a few steps to get there. That is what your daughter sounds like to me. I wouldn't give her too hard of a time, but also don't waste your money on school if she is not interested.

I can't believe how bad U.S. post-secondary schools are in that department. The college I currently attend actually has a slight rightward lean and though the occasional lefty spouts off, they are pretty much ignored.

When I get my degree, I probably will not be able to do anything with it

I'm confused, why don't you want better for your money? Makes no sense to me.

MKM

I am often called a "slacker" because of my attitude towards school and student jobs like retail and other deadend work. Some of us just have higher goals in life and we want to try to skip a few steps to get there. That is what your daughter sounds like to me. I wouldn't give her too hard of a time, but also don't waste your money on school if she is not interested.

That's me right there. I can't count the number of times I said "This is BS".