Tuesday, February 16, 2010
College Students: The New Cash Cows (2/22)
How does this affect education for the underclass? How will American society be affected if people cannot afford the training they need to succeed?
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The underclass will have the hardest time getting an education, unless they are of the luck few able to get scholarships for their high grades and economic situations. If Americans can't get the training they require, it will cause mass outsourcing to those with higher educations and cheaper wages.
ReplyDeleteIt is getting to the point where you have to go to college, but even with all of this pressure to go to college, still many can not afford the costly fees. How do they want the population to go to college and then charge these outrageous fees. Soon, our American business people will completely outsource all of there jobs, where they can get the same quality of labor for cheap. Maybe we need to have more accesible colleges and places where we can go to get the specialized training we need to succeed in the business world.
ReplyDeleteThis affects underclassman a lot; because there is not enough money. They are going to cut more teachers, meaning larger class population. This means that there cannot be as much one on one learning with the teacher, because they will have about 30 more students. This also means less spending on new educational technology.
ReplyDeleteWe then have to pay large amounts of money to go to college. If someone is poor and they are not able to get grants or scholarships, they probably will not go to college. This then creates a less educated population. If we do not figure out some way to make this better our country would be in the hands of other countries. We will be paying other countries to do all of work, for less than we would be able to pay here.
This is huge; it's just yet another example of education budgeting problems. The underclass can't afford to pay the jacked-up tuituion fees these "cash cow" colleges are setting for out-of-state students. And if they can't afford an education, they just go on without one, or settle for a cheaper, poorer quality education. Either way, the underclass stay right where they are; underneath others.
ReplyDeleteAs for American society, it's going to be a long haul if all the workers are unskilled. The unemployment rate is high enough as it is, and as a result structural unemployment, or the unemployment of the unskilled, is happening. People can't get jobs, and certainly don't have the credentials to create new ones, if they're not educated to a higher degree, with at least a bachelor's degree. We're not going to get out of this recession without people getting higher educations.
Obviously it is not the most desirable situation for "the underclass."
ReplyDeleteAs porfitable as the scholarly cash-cows are, it is the cost of becoming one that is really killing the underclass. It seems only natural of someone to take advantage of something they know will eventually be profitable (i.e. the student eventually getting a high-paying job), so the colleges decide to jack up the prices of actually becoming so profitable a peron by upping tuition and other education-bound fees. The colleges miss thet greaterly morally just point in that it is beneficial to a nation to have as much of its population possible bountifully educated, persisting to only see the money aspect. If tuition costs were lowered and more of our "underclass" were given an education, eventually the costs taken on by this hypothetical lowering of tuitions would be dissipated by the massive economic stimulation that the broader population of educated citizens will generate.
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ReplyDeleteThis greatly effects the education for the underclassmen, and it affects them negatively. Much like the others said, the students will
ReplyDeletenot have enough money to get a good education. Sure, community colleges are making it easier to commute and cut down on expenses, but we can't compare a community college education to that of a private school such as Harvard. More people are forced to stay in-state or go to community colleges, so they cannot strive for greater. This is a huge problem, and it is true that budgets need to be cut, so the students won't have all the necessary materials to get a sufficient education nor will they have an intimate student-teacher relationship. What I mean is that there are less teachers and more students, so the
ratio of students to teachers will not be beneficial to the student.
We need to fix this.
Underclassmen will have the hardest time getting a good education, unless they inherit a wealthy amount of money or can receive a few scholarships here and there. And with the cut of schoolteachers, will affect the education level greatly because there will be less one on one with a teacher and students.
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