I posted a response to this
article at the
Daily Caller a while ago, and got a response back. My response to the response started turning into a blog post, et voila'.
My personal experience leads me to the conclusion that the whole
for-profit education industry is one giant Chas. Foxtrot. I was working
at an F.P. in the Baltimore MD. area when the Senate report came out.
We were told that because of it, there would be no more performance
evaluations, therefore no more performance based raises, just COLAS.
Our numbers had dropped due to the economy, and they were cutting
corners madly. Changed all the degree programs so they only needed
people with Bachelors degrees to teach, not Masters. They also found
ways to let the (expensive) full time faculty go, and replace them with
much cheaper adjuncts.
Good times...
This was the response, from
FoxnewsisaTrojanhorse:
Was it your intention to sing the praises of for-profit school?
You did. Quite nicely.
Abolish all not-for-profit schools. Let the free market work it out.
To which I replied:
Don't see how you got that I was "singing the praises of for-profit
school". I wasn't, in this case. None the less, I agree with you about
letting the market sort it out. That would start with getting Fed and
state gov't out of the student loan and "standards" biz.
And let NFPs compete. In the same market. My education was
"private" (Catholic), and a good one, worth the money. Of course, that
was pre-gender/enviro/deconstruction nonsense.
The other problem I saw reminded me of the question of the 80s, when Japan was eating our economic lunch:
What do Japanese companies have that American companies don't?
Japanese workers.
The FPs here in Pa don't seem to have a great pool of candidates from which to draw. And that's the problem.
We need better students.
