Replies to post #440759 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[zab]

No one is forcing anyone to go to college, and in America you can choose any college you want to attend, unless your grades, or you do not measure up to the academic standards that each University sets forth.

Then once you are in college, you decide which classes you want to take or major in, sure there are certain classes that each student must take to meet the Graduation level of each University.

In America each person is supposed to take responsibility for the kind of life they want to pursue. That is what the word Freedom means to most Americans.

Now you might not like certain courses, but when you study the history of America you just cannot leave the parts that offend you, it is the history of America and some of it is not pleasant.

As for how much you spend attending college, again you can go to any school you want, the university sets the price, if you do not like it, then go to a different college.

It appears everything in America appears to bother you, you can always move to China or Russia, I know there you might find exactly what you are looking for. A place for all of those individualistic decisions are made for you.

[newmedman]

A long time ago, I was told by a trusted elder that an education was kind of like having a relationship.

You only get out as much as you put in to it. It doesn't matter if your choice is the brightest star or the rusted out old junker at the back of the parking lot. Either way you will learn valuable lessons if you just assert yourself and listen to your partner.

A million dollar school doesn't mean shit on your resume if you never learned anything from it.

Just look at all the Harvard and Yale graduates that grace our hallowed halls under the guise of GOP idiots that know as much as Boebert who would prostitute herself to pay for every time she retook her GED test. You even have an Oxford grad down there in Roosterville who acts like he just fell of the fucking turnip truck.

You folks eat that shit for breakfast and then have the guts to blame the schools? That's absolute nonsense and you should know better. Ms. I know everything.

[Zorax]

Someone told you drinking your own piss will cleanse your system?
It's not working you've melted what little mind you had before.

I think you and the others are russian propaganda trolls. I see no other reasons for such convoluted bullshit spilled onto a keyboard.

[blackhawks]

38% of the entire U.S. population has a college degree; the number is still ascending notwithstanding real and imagined misgivings over costs and curricula.

Waste of class time "learning" about "social justice activism".

Really? Reads to me like an elective, so anyone who doesn't want to be there.......won't be there.

Find me any college grad that didn't find even some classes in their major not particularly interesting.

Most college students no less than HS students often learn 'accidently' by just hunkering down to 'get the grade', in some courses, and at the very least they learn SOME course content as well as the value of persistence and determination from the effort.

How many of the laughably credulous stop the steal morons who insurrected on 1/6 do you suppose 'hunkered down' at any educational level? 'Stop the steal' and critical thinking skills just don't go together.

'Too educated' is not the source of most of this country's problems

Educational attainment in the U.S. 1960-2021

Published by Erin Duffin, Jun 10, 2022

In 2020, about 37.9 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from college or another higher education institution. This is a significant increase from 1960, when only 7.7 percent of the U.S. population had graduated from college.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/

AMERICA IS DIVIDED BY EDUCATION
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.

By Adam Harris
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/

According to exit polls, 61 percent of non-college-educated white voters cast their ballots for Republicans while just 45 percent of college-educated white voters did so. Meanwhile 53 percent of college-educated white voters cast their votes for Democrats compared with 37 percent of those without a degree.

The growing diploma divide is less a result of non-college-educated white voters becoming Republicans, and more of college-educated white voters finding that they can’t fully support the party anymore. “What's happened since 2016 is that the low-educated whites have kind of plateaued in their support for the Republicans,” Tesler says. “But you've seen this trend increase [of] high-educated whites [moving] towards the Democrats.”

[fuagf]

conix, You are still into recycling debunked garbage conservative talking points

"Finally. Left wing academia not teaching, but preaching."

You have been given much here disproving that conservative inspired myth.

On your ban request. That from one who preaches self-reliance and independence.
You can never say about freedom again with any credibility after asking - yet again - for a ban.

That said, we know why you made the request don't we. It really has little to do with your losing the ability to post here. Shyster.