Some high school grads are so desperate to get into a “ranked” school that they’ll pay it.
Or actually, you’ll pay it. Most of these bright-eyed idealists are preparing for jobs in government or the sprawling “non-profit” swamp around the Beltway. Ten years there and their student loans are “forgiven” — by you and me (aren’t we charitable, now! And they don’t even have to go to Confession!).
American U has undoubtedly decided that they can gouge their students (**every** incoming freshman, freshwoman, and fresh-thing) because hey, their higher-priced, higher-quality competition downtown is getting away with it.
Most institutions of “higher ed” these days are mere appendages of the government. Like the federal bureaucracies, they pack their offices and classrooms with ideological allies to protect themselves with tenure and un-fireability while “teaching” the young by shoving them into an intellectual torture chamber (“How Many Fingers, Winston?”).
Which will all come down with a crash when the taxpayers decide, “Game Over,” and send in the Pitchfork Brigades.
Unless they pass Pitchfork Control first.
10:12 am on October 6, 2016
