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The grad mill

Editor:

Is there a crime called snookery? If so, our universities should be indicted for it.

The taxpayers are burdened with over a trillion dollars in student loans because of these snake oil peddlers. High school graduates who can’t pass English or math proficiency tests or get a loan to buy a big screen TV are granted tens of thousands of dollars in loans by our government to pay for college. For those who choose not to stay on campus, their apartments and cars are paid for. In many cases the extra money goes for booze, drugs and video games.

The recruiters for the universities compete by assuring their prospects a degree. Easy courses are offered in such things as Haitian voodoo., rituals, transgendered fashion design, sexual peculiarities of amphibians, Faberge Easter egg decorating and Hopi Indian basket weaving.

Foreign languages are shunned. Instead, we have American sign language. Difficult courses in nursing, chemistry, engineering and math, which would lead to good jobs, are generally avoided like the plague.

The idea behind this whole scheme, as far as the universities are concerned, is to keep these chumps on the hook for four years and milk them for all they’re worth and fill the coffers to keep the professors and administrators in juicy jobs complete with high salaries, hospitalization, vacations, sabbaticals and retirement pensions.

Now when these poor dupes graduate, complete with mortar board and tassel and their diplomas clutched in their hands, they are now ready to face the world as experts or people who know more and more about less and less until finally they know everything there is to know about nothing.

When they finally do land a job, it is usually one they could have gotten without even having gone to college. No, most of these students loans will never be repaid. Once again the taxpayers will be stuck with another boondoggle.

Lloyd Berresford

Hanoverton

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