Back in 2021, my husband was scammed out of 2 billion won. Long story short, he purchased a large plot of land (South Korea). However, the land was located in a mountainous area designated as unfit for development, except for military or public use. Under the Forest Conservation Act, the area was virtually undevelopable, as it was meant to be preserved. Police believe that the real estate group subdivided the mountainous land into smaller lots and sold them to over 3,000 individuals, deceiving them by claiming to have insider information about upcoming redevelopment in the area.
community colleges are great and easy less expensive
That is true, but I feel like we could do better.
Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.
If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.
Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.
The problem with this approach to education is that they’ll just wind up cutting important but not lucrative majors like arts, English, etc. Your approach is more tailored toward job training programs than general education (which a lot of schooling has turned into). Costs definitely need to come down though.
I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.
That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.
Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.
Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.
It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.
Even in Africa there are countries that invest in their citizens by providing free university education. How is America planning to stay relevant when so many citizens remain poor and uneducated?
Apparently the only thing that’s being planned is destroying the country.
So it would seem so.
Now that imports and exports are threatened, we might not se that many American products in the future. Well, Doritos and Coke are still on the shelf of my local supermarket, but I wonder how long will it be that way. Maybe one day the only American thing I can see are some old pirated movies.