Sunday, July 6, 2014
Is this Education Worth its Cost?
The Sunday, July 6th's Miami Herald's local section includes a piece by columnist Fred Grimm titled "For Profits Forsake their Students" (see link: http://www.miamiherald.com/search_results?aff=1100&q=Grimm). After reading the article state why this is important to all, even people who are not enrolled in for-profit colleges. When sharing the article's findings and your views with your fellow students in class be sure to state what the difference is between a for-profit college, a private non-profit college and a public college.
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Randy Diaz,
ReplyDeleteThis was the article I read previously, which provoked a churning in my stomach. I am disgusted by the for profit institutions because of the deceitfulness to the handicapped , vets, and lower income students.
What is occurring with for-profit organizations is not news.This has been happening to thousands of people in the past twenty years. For-profit organizations scam people every day to get in debt with unaccredited courses.The most disgusting part was the bailout by the US department of education to allow students to keep getting low quality education. The article enlightens us again how politics play a dirty role with the corporations that feed them cold hard cash. Unethical practices used by our government and corporate directors are annihilating the United States possibilities to stay as a world power. These for profit institutions only allow diminishing returns to students and inflate the rich. If we allow the government to keep feeding issues such as ,(Corinthian) the for profit college trap, the Us will never come out of its debt ensnare plateauing our educational standards. Ultimately collapsing our already poor standards of living.
ReplyDelete"You probably won’t be shocked to learn that these companies still have powerful allies in Congress, particularly in the U.S. House of Representatives, who are working to undo what scant oversight the federal government now has over the for-profit college industry."
Without doubt the for-profit organizations like Corinthian college Inc. are a joke, students deserve better education & a real chance to make it in the world not this expensive “waste of your time” scheme. So much for the real-life advertising, I’m starting to doubt any of those people who say that they graduated from Everest or even ITT tech schools are even telling the truth. And just like Wall Street in the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis, what can you do about it when these companies have all the money & influence in congress.
ReplyDeleteI for one am ecstatic that I didn’t trade my spot at MDC north campus for a sleazy “big talk” school that. Who knows what would have happened if I wasn’t afraid to take out a few loans for the “privilege” of going to a good school. Like me high school teacher said look for grants not loans, but that’s the thing, these corrupt schools are also coming up with fake grants to put even more students & their family in debt. Who can you trust when you can’t even be sure the school you want or need to attend is actually going to help you achieve your goal & not bankrupt you & your family for generations to come?
“I’m not an actor” they say while advertising a dead end, money draining school. After this scandal who’s going to believe anything that Everest or even ITT says about “their schools”, they’ll probably going to continue to lie through their teethes till the government finally shuts them down for fraud. Why does congress get involved with people like this it only makes them look bad & then the senate has to send investigator to dig up the truth, publish the story therefore alerting everyone & when the people are rattled up it can go either way through media. One the main focus is the people & their point of view on how they feel about being manipulated by a billion dollar company out to bankrupt students or the media will focus on the school & weather not the reputation will be tainted by the circumstances & what their course of action will be.
This is Wall Street all over again, for-profit organizations & companies have absolutely no conscience it’s over run by greed & well stupidity. These Corinthian schools had a good run & fooled millions of people throughout the years but they are using up too much of the hardworking people’s tax money for nothing more than to increase their own salary. It’s about time they were shut down, if they are not turning over their schools to the community so the kids & young adults can get their shot at proper education then there is no use for them, now is there? Who would knowingly go to a school knowing the loans they take out will rapidly turn them broke for life & they might not graduate or come close to their dream job in this life time, certainly not I or any of my friends.
Without doubt the for-profit organizations like Corinthian college Inc. are a joke, students deserve better education & a real chance to make it in the world not this expensive “waste of your time” scheme. So much for the real-life advertising, people who say that they graduated from Everest or even ITT tech schools are probably actors or the 1% that actually made it out. And just like Wall Street in the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis, what can you do about it when these companies have all the money & influence in congress.
It seems incredible to me how lack of morality and ethic permeates today's society. I do not understand how everything in society comes down to money, money and more money. It would be WONDERFUL if the people who head today's society, banks, businesses and schools could take with them their greed and money once they depart from this world. However, everything we have and owned (including a single cent) stays here on earth once our time has ran out.
ReplyDeleteThis issue at hand is important to all, even those who are not going to for-profit colleges, because it is our tax dollars that are keeping these colleges running. These for-profit colleges use our tax money to help carry out their sleazy schemes and scams. Not only that, but these for-profit colleges are also worsening the condition of our economy, causing many people to go into debt because of their inability to pay of student loans from these colleges; loans which they did not even know they were getting into or were forced to take. To me, this issue is so sad because people who are actually trying to get an education and make a better life for themselves are taken advantage of by these for-profit colleges and stripped financially. This is abuse to another degree.
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