Public isn’t, and it’s expensive because students can’t go bankrupt so colleges can just keep charging more and more. This is combined with the pressure from media and prior schooling to go to college to get a good paying job, well this is what monopolies look like.
but honestly, what I see happening is eventually there will be a big push for online school and I am not talking government run. Why the hell do I need to go to a college to learn about history and many other subjects? There should be online courses that are free and high quality. Self-study being the primary method of advancement for the student. Maybe have proctored exams by going to prometric to get credit. Once you complete a certain series of courses you can get a certificate or more formal degree. For stuff that requires in-person work then what you can do is have it where most of the theory stuff is self-studied and then you apply for an in-person program that is only 6 months. That would save an immense amount of money for students.
The VAST MAJORITY of subjects are what I would call textbook subjects where you can just self-study it - computer science, engineering, math, chemistry, history etc. The ones that do require some in-person courses they can still be made more efficient using the method I describe. Think about something like nursing. You can self-study all the course for 2-3 years then apply for a 6 month program where you learn how to administer a shot, deliver a baby, give CPR and other nursing sills like that.
Without CCPvirus lockdowns, at least HS should have drastically changed over a decade ago. Many problems can be reduced by allowing students to work at their own pace. Typically kids get a week's worth of work done in a few hours.
All the worries about social ostracization are bs. We still need the facility for testing, labs, PE, music, sports, and whatever else I've left out. Students will probably perform poorly in subjects they hate. Some students will perform poorly without the structured classroom setting. So you reduce the school population at any given time by probably well over a third, which plays well to the crowd that's paranoid about spread of communicable disease. Meanwhile everything else improves drastically. At the College level this is true even moreso.
Of all the things college professors are wrong about, that ain't one of them.
The point I'm making is don't borrow money if you don't intend to repay it.
Fair enough -- but the bankers themselves don't play by that rule.
Public isn’t, and it’s expensive because students can’t go bankrupt so colleges can just keep charging more and more. This is combined with the pressure from media and prior schooling to go to college to get a good paying job, well this is what monopolies look like.
Just follow the money....sorry had to do it.
but honestly, what I see happening is eventually there will be a big push for online school and I am not talking government run. Why the hell do I need to go to a college to learn about history and many other subjects? There should be online courses that are free and high quality. Self-study being the primary method of advancement for the student. Maybe have proctored exams by going to prometric to get credit. Once you complete a certain series of courses you can get a certificate or more formal degree. For stuff that requires in-person work then what you can do is have it where most of the theory stuff is self-studied and then you apply for an in-person program that is only 6 months. That would save an immense amount of money for students.
The VAST MAJORITY of subjects are what I would call textbook subjects where you can just self-study it - computer science, engineering, math, chemistry, history etc. The ones that do require some in-person courses they can still be made more efficient using the method I describe. Think about something like nursing. You can self-study all the course for 2-3 years then apply for a 6 month program where you learn how to administer a shot, deliver a baby, give CPR and other nursing sills like that.
I don know nuffin bout birthin no babies!
Without CCPvirus lockdowns, at least HS should have drastically changed over a decade ago. Many problems can be reduced by allowing students to work at their own pace. Typically kids get a week's worth of work done in a few hours.
All the worries about social ostracization are bs. We still need the facility for testing, labs, PE, music, sports, and whatever else I've left out. Students will probably perform poorly in subjects they hate. Some students will perform poorly without the structured classroom setting. So you reduce the school population at any given time by probably well over a third, which plays well to the crowd that's paranoid about spread of communicable disease. Meanwhile everything else improves drastically. At the College level this is true even moreso.