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As it is, everybody and their mom can go to college, as a result, student debt is insane and lots of people are just dumb and shouldn't be in college at all. What if there were far stricter requirements, say only the smartest most intelligent people were allowed to go to college? Kind of like how it was back in the day?
Most colleges/universities are non-profit or government (state) run.
By the strictest definition, that's true.
However, while the poster didn't express the sentiment very well, I think what he/she was getting at is a lot of people are making their living off of marginal students who probably shouldn't be in college. That sentiment is correct. And, by the way, the student loan lenders, do, indeed, earn profits; so the comment wasn't totally off base.
Colleges should return to being educational institutions, for the level of student who qualifies in a broad intellectual and goal sense, with specialized schools (med, law) teaching the pinnacle of students who qualified for those specialties. Period.
Job tickets, whether for HVAC or IT, should be issued by a lower tier of schools, accessible to a much wider range of students, without dressing up what is basically trade training in educational trappings. This can be fulfilled by the existing tier of community and junior colleges through a large number of "universities" restructured to the task.
Athletic budgets should be limited to 5% of the overall school budget and oriented toward students who want to play, not budding pros who need a farm system, and not as a marketing arm to sweep in as many high-profit students as possible.
Excellent points.
Unfortunately, it won't happen until/unless there's some major calamity of some sort.
People in high-paying jobs do not always pan out. Many of us out here in the group of "average and low IQ," no matter how much education or even training for trades will not be able to manage ourselves to the liking of mainstream society. You can talk STEM, doctor/law or any high paying profession - yeah, sure. The 70-85 IQ range folks will have a tough time getting into those if at all. So then it all goes back to what do you do with your "underperforming" citizens (lowest class whites, blacks and Hispanics... of course whites and Hispanics do better than blacks). The underperformers are in situations of government dependency and homelesses for a reason. Wonder why that is, huh?
Because being below average is a huge handicap and extremely difficult to overcome. Just walk around town being yourself as a person with challenges and you will be automatically associated with the rest of the low IQ 70-85 range population... and in black culture, either you are in the crowd of doctors/lawyers and few other high paying professions such as sports/music/television/movies or you will most likely be nothing, because the trades (plumbing, construction, retail, etc.) are seen as the equivalent to the white society "trailer trash." Yes, there are probably a couple exceptions to the norm. What it amounts to is that you are either rich or in the gutter. There is just no in-between. This is just another reason why so many "average" blacks are left out and on the streets and will fail at every level of mainstream society. Hispanics - those who are white-Hispanic with European physical traits - fair much better in modest lifestyles because they can fit in as likeminded people with similar cultures. This is as well for Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Filipino, etc) even without high test scores. It is time to stop playing nice. The "lower than average" folks especially do not, and will never naturally fit in the way mainstream society wants us to, certainly not by somehow magically becoming likeminded in our politics and/or similar in culture to everyone else.
As it is, everybody and their mom can go to college, as a result, student debt is insane and lots of people are just dumb and shouldn't be in college at all. What if there were far stricter requirements, say only the smartest most intelligent people were allowed to go to college? Kind of like how it was back in the day?
Back in the day, state residents could almost take for granted admission to their state flagship schools, if they got decent grades. AFAIK, all the state flagships are much more competitive now. Berkeley, for example, is insanely competitive. Even students with above a 4.0 aren't assured of getting in!
OTOH, students who had a parent or older sibling attend college, even an ivy league school, can skate in on a "legacy" admission, no matter how bad their grades. Maybe that's what gave you the impression that everyone and his mom can get in.
I think it's a more complex issue than you're imagining.
There are extremely strict standards today. Only they're based on race and ethnicity, not academics. Caucasians and Asians are actually underrepresented at many universities.
Fact is, at many West coast universities, Asians and Caucs dominate the campuses. Asians ace the admissions requirements, so it's pretty much no contest, there. Take a look at the stats, before you present hypotheticals as fact.
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