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Colleges Dupe Parents and Taxpayers
Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2020 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 01/01/2020 5:49:50 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Vision

These are students that at some point enter the work force and then go on to pull this same shit in our corporations.


21 posted on 01/01/2020 7:01:17 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Kaslin

“Diversity” is an industry all to itself, and it’s minions have not only become a parasite to academia they have gotten a strong hold in all the top corporations as well. The entire thing is a political agenda that yes had its roots in academia but expanded beyond those roots at least a decade ago if not sooner.


22 posted on 01/01/2020 7:24:44 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Kaslin

Diversity in all things except thought. Amazing stats about colleges today... something is terribly wrong.


23 posted on 01/01/2020 7:27:30 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Kaslin

In state schools it’s the state legislatures that have abrogated their responsibilities on this!


24 posted on 01/01/2020 7:35:14 AM PST by Reily
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To: Kaslin
It ain't hard to dupe the dopes!
25 posted on 01/01/2020 7:41:22 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: Kaslin

Diversity officials = Bribe Taker

Ever see a poor one


26 posted on 01/01/2020 7:47:43 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

Students pay for wasteful diversity staff. They are dumb enough to pay for 3 burgers but only eat 1.

Right to Assembly does not include lazy diversity staff.

Put a line in the University contract that they must pay back tuition on worthless degrees.


27 posted on 01/01/2020 7:52:33 AM PST by TheNext (Universal Skeptic)
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To: Kaslin

The left has slowly been insinuating itself into the education system for several generations. They are pretty much in full control now. Getting them out will take Herculean effort..


28 posted on 01/01/2020 7:52:48 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Oldexpat

That’s what I did. “You get no ‘privacy’ as long as you live at home. Fill this out, turn it in, and bring me a receipt.”


29 posted on 01/01/2020 7:55:35 AM PST by Tax-chick ("We should find strength and pride in being an idol-smashing people." ~ Bari Weiss)
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To: Don Corleone

Actually, no.

Nearly free education exists now in the form of Internet learning and used textbooks. The key missing ingredient is certified testing.

Even in the STEM careers most of the learning is rote and changes little from year to year. Obviously, laboratory and clinical rotations need brick and mortar settings but the rest doesn’t.

My associate owed a quarter of million dollars for his education and training. With certified testing the cost could be reduced ten fold.


30 posted on 01/01/2020 8:01:54 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: yldstrk

Why would you check to see if your son or daughter were attending finals?


31 posted on 01/01/2020 8:04:56 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: wintertime

Exactly. And STEM students who can’t learn what they need to know online aren’t actually fit for modern STEM jobs.

Testing is what is required. There is a great startup opportunity here, which should be done in coordination with a number of major STEM employers to get it going.


32 posted on 01/01/2020 8:05:45 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: madison10

and don’t forget the public school system operated by our local school boards. Go by any headquarter building and you will find it full of unnecessary personnel and, of course it is a very diverse work force.

A few years ago individual school administrators handled most everything necessary to operate a good school. And, of course, you will find the more non-teaching positions added resulted in poorer performing schools.

Check the ratio of teaching personnel versus non-teaching personnel in your school system.


33 posted on 01/01/2020 8:06:06 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, and while we’re at it—universities pay all those diversity, etc., idiots six-fiure salaries, and the adjuncts who do the vast majority of the actual college teaching these days what often works out to sub-minimum wages.

Shouldn’t be allowed for them to pay what they do. Those adjuncts are thus increasingly unionizing, with the likes of SEIU and other union hucksters getting involved—and usually getting those profs up to about minimum wage or so.

But parents are paying massive amounts for some overburdened minimum-wage employee to be their kids’ “professors”.


34 posted on 01/01/2020 8:09:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: yldstrk

If you have to call to see if your kid is attending finals, that’s a major problem right there.

Past time to let your kid fail and grow up on his/her own, without you subsidizing irresponsible behavior.


35 posted on 01/01/2020 8:11:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

The government subsidizes irresponsible behavior all the time and gets more of it.


36 posted on 01/01/2020 8:21:54 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

No reason at all for parents to do that with our own children—though yeah, through student loans taxpayers are subsidizing much of the irresponsible college behavior at this point.


37 posted on 01/01/2020 8:25:31 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Bayard

Its all funded by Fed.gov. Where did $1.3 Trillion in present student debt come from?


38 posted on 01/01/2020 8:42:15 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Tommy Revolts

Yes. It’s why commercials and network TV are unwatchable.


39 posted on 01/01/2020 8:43:00 AM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Kaslin

If I were a newly graduated high schooler today, I would get a job in the field I want and go to community college or take online courses.

Algebra is algebra. You don’t need to learn it at one of these mind control palaces.

Or, learn to make violins, how about that?


40 posted on 01/01/2020 8:56:21 AM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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