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Irate law school grads say they were misled about job prospects

The angry rants first surfaced last summer on an anonymous New Jersey blog.
Law school is a “scam,” the blogger wrote. Administrators are greedy “charlatans” who could not care less about education, and students are but “hapless lemmings” who have been tricked into paying a fortune to enter “America’s most overrated, miserable and saturated industry.”

The blogger is Scott Bullock, a 2005 Seton Hall University School of Law graduate who agreed to reveal his identity to The Star-Ledger for this article. Yet Bullock, whose outrage stems from graduating with more than $100,000 of debt but meager job prospects, says he is merely tapping into a groundswell of resentment against the nation’s law schools.


http://www.nj.com/bu...ds_say_the.html

Law School Grads Sue Over Not Getting Jobs

False advertising and bogus statistics

New York Law

[Rogerdodger]

$40,000 per year tuition. I love Lawyers vs Lawyers. My friend's daughter passed the NY bar a few years ago after attending a a different law school than the one mentioned. Her boyfriend at the time, now ex-boyfriend, did attend the one mentioned and he has yet to pass the NY bar. She and her husband attorney both have jobs, but not making what they thought they would. And she hates it. She wants to teach elementary school.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 15 August 2011 - 11:46 AM.

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Seton Hall to lower tuition rate by $21K matching Rutgers

Cost of College Education will Crash Within a Decade

If Congress really wants to do something about the high cost of education, it would:

Cancel student loan programs
End support for the University of Phoenix and all for-profit universities
Accredit more online universities
End collective bargaining of public unions

One of the reasons college education is so high is because union activists and socialists want to send everyone to college whether they are qualified or not. When that drove up costs, government "aid" programs were invented, not for the benefit of students, but rather for the benefit of educators. Students became debt slaves in the process.

College

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College

I would suggest that a parent thinking of allocating $40,000 to $50,000 per year for four years of college education instead grubstake their kid with that same money. You could even make it a fraction of that, to be put into actually doing something, like starting a business or trying out different investment strategies, and get a lot more experience and knowledge for your kid as a result.

You certainly don’t need a college to gain knowledge. For example, there’s an outfit called The Teaching Company that hires the very best professors in the world in all sorts of subjects to deliver superb audio courses. I listen to these things all the time in the car. I watch the ones that have important visual components on my computer, and I can go back and repeat anything I don’t understand clearly – when my mind is receptive to it. It’s much more effective than going to college would be, and it’s vastly cheaper. Superior in every possible respect.

Another thing I’d do if I had a college-age kid is plan out a travel schedule. He’d have to spend at least a month in a dozen countries and report on what he does there. Travel may be the single best type of education, at least if done with a method and an objective.

Doug Casey

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Overeducated And Underemployed

A large class of people who are overeducated and underemployed is a recipe for instability.

John Smith, 31, of Brooklyn works part time at Trader Joe’s because he hasn’t been able to find work in his field for more than a year, despite having a master’s degree. He has about $45,000 in student loan debt. His girlfriend, Meropi Peponides, 27, a graduate student at Columbia University, will have about $50,000 by the time she graduates.

Students can graduate from some of the most prestigious institutions in the country without ever learning anything about science, mathematics, economics or anything else that would make them either productive contributors to the economy or informed voters who can see through political rhetoric.

On the contrary, people with such “education” are often more susceptible to demagoguery than the population at large. Nor is this a situation peculiar to America. In countries around the world, people with degrees in soft subjects have been sources of political unrest, instability and even mass violence.

you need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

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Wall Street Protesters Prove Most Academic Degrees Worthless Today

Being in debt for $96,000 for a degree in Women's studies or Art History is just plain stupid.
If you're applying for a Pell grant to study Philosophy/Star Trek at Georgetown University or Queer Musicology at UCLA then you probably shouldn't get one.

Several years ago I attended a cocktail party where I heard a prescient remark from a gentleman who said, "sooner or later, businesses are going to stop demanding college degrees and just start hiring the most qualified person for the job." Ivy League Universities have been selling their overpriced and worthless degrees on the premise that with their sheepskin, a high paying job is guaranteed. This is no longer the case and part of the problem is the corruption of their curriculum by endowments from special interests groups and Middle Eastern potentates.

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Government programs loaned money for worthless mortgages because the value of real estate always goes up.

Government programs loan money for indentured servitude "Student loans".

What could go wrong?

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Student loan debt tops $1 trillion...
The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created in the wake of the financial crisis. That would be roughly 16% higher than an estimate earlier this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 22 March 2012 - 09:15 PM.

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Students crash college meeting, chanting 'no cuts, no fees, education should be free'...

Big Education has always been safe from the criticism that big oil and big business gets.
Primarily because it has served as the incubator and nursery for the anti-capitalism movement, and fostered a hostility towards traditional American values such as freedom and liberty.
In recent years, invited speakers have been shouted down and threatened if their speech contradicted the radical consensus of the university dogma.


Now the Lemmings are looking at their $1 TRILLION student loan debt and seeing they have been duped into debt slavery because they are dupes.
Education, like health care, housing, food and vacations, is a right and should therefore be "free", so they have been taught.

What goes around, comes around.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 04 April 2012 - 08:24 AM.

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College courses need slacker index


Students today spend 50 percent less time studying than the previous generation, according to research by Richard Arum, a professor of sociology at New York University.
For four years, Arum and his co-author tracked 2,300 students at 24 universities, publishing the results in a new book,
"Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses."

Any given semester, half of the students didn't have a single course that required 20 pages of writing.

More than 1 out of 3 got by with less than five hours of homework per week.

As a result, the students showed minimal improvement on cognitive skills.

"The faculty are not surprised by these findings," Arum recently told NPR.
Colleges tend to reward instructors for getting high marks on student evaluations, Arum explained.
"There's a huge incentive set up in the system: asking students very little, grading them easily, entertaining them, and your course evaluations will be high."

The solution? MORE MONEY! ALWAYS MORE MONEY!
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Edited by Rogerdodger, 16 April 2012 - 09:14 AM.