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PBS Frontline should check out State run community

I recently checked out some community and state schools with my kids. Here is what I found:

  1. They use TV commercials to recruit students.

  2. Although the Pell grant would cover the cost of tuition and books, we were encouraged to take out student loans to buy a new lap top, help me pay my mortgage, buy a new car for my kids etc. I was told how I could get these great low interest loans to help purchase items my child “may need” for school.

  3. All though they had a career service department, they are not required to meet any standards of graduation or placement rates. Ask them what they ae, WOW will you be shocked.

  4. My kids can take classes (and pay for) such as yoga, history of Madonna, styles of exotic dancing etc. which have no real purpose of their degree.

  5. Anytime we saw finance, academic advising or registrar it was a work study student. I asked to see a manager and was told they could take my number and there is a 3-5 day wait for them to call me back. I’m currently on day 89.

I am not supporting for-profit schools or condoning their actions, but do think that the entire education system is corrupt. Millions of dollars are being spent unwisely and students are loading up on debt more than they should be. The government has taken a stand as they should with for-profit schools but I think it should also look into their own government run schools and fix them too. The government acts like they are the good guys and they are no better than the crooks at the for-profit schools.

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However, your kids will have to actually do the work up to the standards they set. They won't get passed through as in Everest. That is why the credits will count and it is the best course for all students. Everest specialized in getting students who thought they could get college without doing any real work up to a high standard. Otherwise, why wouldn't they go to a real college (community or state) for cheaper and better value in the degree? At least 85% of every classes I taught had students that should never be in college, way too stupid and behind in knowledge. The other 15% should have gone to another school, they were wasting time at Everest and I always wanted to tell them so.

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I agree with what you're saying about some state and community colleges, but unlike Everest, their degrees are still worth something. Anyone who believes that Everest is a good school or that we're helping these students is delusional. This school will be closed soon, we're losing WAY more students than we're admitting and nobody is even trying to change that.

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Post ID: @1bdu+Jo3x6b9

Well stated!!!

Plus as tax payers we pay for this idiotic garbage (community colleges/state universities!

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Very good post.

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It's refreshing to know that other people besides myself see the corruption in modern education and how our government condones and feeds the spending of money (future money) in the name of higher education. Americans are spending and wasting money like there is no tomorrow! We could wake up some morning with a decimated Wall Street and a collapsed Federal Treasury. What then? Will it be like the housing crash with all our politicians and the billionaires acting like they didn't see it coming?

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