By Professor Doom
Practically since
birth, our children have been indoctrinated into believing they must go to
college after high school. Hey, there really was a time when going to college
was both a privilege and a valid path into a better life.
But it’s not a privilege
any more. Every state has multiple “open admissions” schools eager to snap up
vulnerable kids as they walk out of high school. Getting accepted to college
today is about as much an accomplishment as buying a refrigerator.
It’s also not
necessarily a valid path into a better life. We have
pimps helping their prostitutes pay their college loans now. I don’t
want to sound judgmental, but if you become a prostitute because that’s the
only way to pay your college loan bills, college is not giving you a better
life. We also
have people fleeing the country to escape their loans now…and they
could have fled the country without going to college first. We have
grandparents losing their social security due to college loans, too…if
college doesn’t even pay off by the time you’re 65, there’s a problem here.
Bottom line,
people are figuring out that college really isn’t such a good idea, or at least
not for everyone. College enrollments have been dropping the last few years,
and, most pleasingly, the drops have been greatest on the “lowest rung” of
higher education, the scammy community and for-profit colleges. Again, not
being judgmental, but college
graduate IQ has dropped far in this decade, to the point that a degree means
nothing in terms of intelligence (or training, or education), and this is in
large part due to the bottom feeding aspects of our higher education system.
The leaders of
higher education are in a panic over this drop; they’ve massively overbuilt the
higher education system, inflating their own salaries and giving their cronies
many fake jobs…things that cannot be paid for unless the student population on
campus grows dramatically, instead of dropping like it is.
New Mexico has
come up with a solution:
New
Mexico’s high school juniors would have to apply to at least one college or
commit to other post-high school plans as part of a proposed graduation
requirement…would make it mandatory for public school juniors to apply to at
least one two- or four-year college.
This is…insane.
Already some 70% of high school graduates go to college, with 80% of US
citizens going to college eventually. Isn’t this good enough? The gentle reader
should understand that every student here that applies will be accepted, will
be granted loan/grant money, and please understand the implication we have
here: even a student with an IQ of 70 could find himself in college.
I’m not trying to
be a jerk here but college really isn’t for everyone. Imagine a law which would
require every student to apply to BasketBall Camp, expressing an interest in
playing basketball 8 hours a day whether the student really cares to do so, or
not. It’s just insane, both from a “government is way too involved in our
lives” and a “literally everyone going to college removes the value of college”
standpoint.
What prompted
this madness?
The
measure was drafted with the aim of reversing declines in college enrollment
across the state, which fell nearly 14 percent from 155,065 enrolled students
in 2010 to 133,830 in 2016.
So, enrollment is
dropping. And? Gee whiz, I bet the number of people using rotary phones has
fallen dramatically in the last 6 years too…there’s no proposal to force people
to use those, is there? Of course not, there’s no student loan money for that.
The openly
predatory nature of this law is astonishing. These guys really are shameless.
it
also could encourage prospective first-generation college students to seriously
consider getting into a higher education institution.
The most
fraudulent community colleges really target those “first
generation” students in much the same way crocodiles go after young herd
animals: they’re easy prey. Just as a young deer has no idea what vicious
creature is waiting in the water, so too does the first generation student not
understand how many leaders in higher education drool at the thought of exploiting
the new graduate’s ignorance. A first generation student has no family to tell
him he’s being tricked, getting a fake education, or know how the rip-off of
the usual college loan scam works.
It’s vile, and
this law will only set up more kids for the slaughter. This level of
ruthlessness is “best practices,” however:
The New
Mexico bill is modeled after a similar requirement that Gentry said was put in
place for high school students in San Marcos, Texas, more than a decade ago.
And last year in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel made post-high school plans a
graduation requirement…
Please understand
how these rules are a monstrosity. The main reason enrollments are falling is
the word has gotten out: the people cheated by the student loan scam are old
enough to have kids going to college…and they’re being warned away. By forcing
everyone to apply to college, it will catch the people from families which do
not yet have victims of student loans in them. These rules will be forcing the
young deer into the deepest part of the river…how do the lawmakers sleep at night, knowing as they
must the evil of their laws?
Many of
the state’s community colleges don’t charge application fees and applying
online can take as little as 20 minutes.
Again, the
predatory nature of this couldn’t be more clear. Already, anyone who has an
interest in going to college can apply, for free, with little effort. There’s
simply no ethical reason to force people do this.
“You’ve
got to provide the support to make that happen,” Lumley said. “First-generation
kids, for a lot of them, the reason they don’t go to college is they have no
idea how to even start that process.”
These kids,
despite the best efforts of the guidance counselors and the schools in general
can’t seem to figure out “go online to fill out the free application.” And the
solution is to make a law forcing them to do it?
The thinking here
is just so muddled. New Mexico’s public education system is so terrible that 12
years of training isn’t enough for some graduates to fill out a form designed
to be very simple to complete, or to show up on campus so a trained
professional can fill out the form for the graduate.
And they think the
problem here is there isn’t a law forcing the student to apply to college.
Bottom line, if
there were no student loan/grant system creating so many victims, I’d find this
just another stupid law from a government always seeking new ways to intrude
into our lives. But throw in those loans, and we’re looking at pure evil here.
Kill the student
loan scam at the federal level, and I bet these sorts of laws wouldn’t even get
discussed.
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