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Practically since birth, our children have been indoctrinated into believing they must go to college after high school. Hey, there really was a time when going to college was both a privilege and a valid path into a better life.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not a privilege any more. Every state has multiple \u201copen admissions\u201d schools eager to snap up vulnerable kids as they walk out of high school. Getting accepted to college today is about as much an accomplishment as buying a refrigerator.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also not necessarily a valid path into a better life. We have pimps helping their prostitutes pay their college loans<\/a> now. I don\u2019t want to sound judgmental, but if you become a prostitute because that\u2019s the only way to pay your college loan bills, college is not giving you a better life. We also have people fleeing the country<\/a> to escape their loans now\u2026and they could have fled the country without going to college first. We have grandparents losing their social security<\/a> due to college loans, too\u2026if college doesn\u2019t even pay off by the time you\u2019re 65, there\u2019s a problem here.<\/p>\n Bottom line, people are figuring out that college really isn\u2019t such a good idea, or at least not for everyone. College enrollments have been dropping the last few years, and, most pleasingly, the drops have been greatest on the \u201clowest rung\u201d of higher education, the scammy community and for-profit colleges. Again, not being judgmental, but college graduate IQ has dropped far<\/a> in this decade, to the point that a degree means nothing in terms of intelligence (or training, or education), and this is in large part due to the bottom feeding aspects of our higher education system.<\/p>\n The leaders of higher education are in a panic over this drop; they\u2019ve massively overbuilt the higher education system, inflating their own salaries and giving their cronies many fake jobs\u2026things that cannot be paid for unless the student population on campus grows dramatically, instead of dropping like it is.<\/p>\n New Mexico has come up with a solution:<\/p>\n New Mexico\u2019s high school juniors would have to apply to at least one college or commit to other post-high school plans as part of a proposed graduation requirement\u2026would make it mandatory for public school juniors to apply to at least one two- or four-year college.<\/em><\/p>\n This is\u2026insane. Already some 70% of high school graduates go to college, with 80% of US citizens going to college eventually. Isn\u2019t this good enough? The gentle reader should understand that every student here that applies will be accepted, will be granted loan\/grant money, and please understand the implication we have here: even a student with an IQ of 70 could find himself in college.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not trying to be a jerk here but college really isn\u2019t for everyone. Imagine a law which would require every student to apply to BasketBall Camp, expressing an interest in playing basketball 8 hours a day whether the student really cares to do so, or not. It\u2019s just insane, both from a \u201cgovernment is way too involved in our lives\u201d and a \u201cliterally everyone going to college removes the value of college\u201d standpoint.<\/p>\n What prompted this madness?<\/p>\n The measure was drafted with the aim of reversing declines in college enrollment across the state, which fell nearly 14 percent from 155,065 enrolled students in 2010 to 133,830 in 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n So, enrollment is dropping. And? Gee whiz, I bet the number of people using rotary phones has fallen dramatically in the last 6 years too\u2026there\u2019s no proposal to force people to use those, is there? Of course not, there\u2019s no student loan money for that.<\/p>\n The openly predatory nature of this law is astonishing. These guys really are shameless.<\/p>\n it also could encourage prospective first-generation college students to seriously consider getting into a higher education institution.<\/em><\/p>\n The most fraudulent community colleges really target those \u201cfirst generation\u201d students in much the same way crocodiles go after young herd animals: they\u2019re easy prey. Just as a young deer has no idea what vicious creature is waiting in the water, so too does the first generation student not understand how many leaders in higher education drool at the thought of exploiting the new graduate\u2019s ignorance. A first generation student has no family to tell him he\u2019s being tricked, getting a fake education, or know how the rip-off of the usual college loan scam works.<\/p>\n It\u2019s vile, and this law will only set up more kids for the slaughter. This level of ruthlessness is \u201cbest practices,\u201d however:<\/p>\n The New Mexico bill is modeled after a similar requirement that Gentry said was put in place for high school students in San Marcos, Texas, more than a decade ago. And last year in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel made post-high school plans a graduation requirement\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Please understand how these rules are a monstrosity. The main reason enrollments are falling is the word has gotten out: the people cheated by the student loan scam are old enough to have kids going to college\u2026and they\u2019re being warned away. By forcing everyone to apply to college, it will catch the people from families which do not yet have victims of student loans in them. These rules will be forcing the young deer into the deepest part of the river\u2026how do the lawmakers sleep at night, knowing as they must the evil of their laws?<\/p>\n Many of the state\u2019s community colleges don\u2019t charge application fees and applying online can take as little as 20 minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n Again, the predatory nature of this couldn\u2019t be more clear. Already, anyone who has an interest in going to college can apply, for free, with little effort. There\u2019s simply no ethical reason to force people do this.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to provide the support to make that happen,\u201d Lumley said. \u201cFirst-generation kids, for a lot of them, the reason they don\u2019t go to college is they have no idea how to even start that process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n These kids, despite the best efforts of the guidance counselors and the schools in general can\u2019t seem to figure out \u201cgo online to fill out the free application.\u201d And the solution is to make a law forcing them to do it?<\/p>\n The thinking here is just so muddled. New Mexico\u2019s public education system is so terrible that 12 years of training isn\u2019t enough for some graduates to fill out a form designed to be very simple to complete, or to show up on campus so a trained professional can fill out the form for the graduate.<\/p>\n And they think the problem here is there isn\u2019t a law forcing the student to apply to college.<\/p>\n Bottom line, if there were no student loan\/grant system creating so many victims, I\u2019d find this just another stupid law from a government always seeking new ways to intrude into our lives. But throw in those loans, and we\u2019re looking at pure evil here.<\/p>\n Kill the student loan scam at the federal level, and I bet these sorts of laws wouldn\u2019t even get discussed.<\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a>m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"