Senseless Tuesday Sarcasm : School
Yes, I know. I missed Sunday. I’m woman enough to admit that I screwed up.
I found this meme on another social site
It is oh too true.
I was among the fortunate, graduating with no student loans. I needed assistance with text books on cassette tape (so I could remember what I’d read), and extra time to take tests.
Since I had a disability that presented a barrier to employment, Vocational Rehabilitation paid for my college education.
What was my major? Rehabilitation Psychology to learn how to be a vocational rehabilitation counselor.
When I achieved a B.S. degree, I was so proud!
Here’s where the sarcasm comes in: Once I graduated, the only job I could find was as a guide, reader, notetaker and driver for a blind vocational rehabilitation counselor. There were so many people wanting to be VR counselors that the ones with master’s degrees were first in line.
It helped that I wasn’t the one who had to remember what I read, so it was all good.
I had to take Algebra 2 in college as part of the curriculum. Fortunately, I had already learned how to balance a checkbook and pay taxes, through the school of hard knocks.
But what about the 18 – 20 crowd who don’t know that taxes, and insurance take 1/3 of your paycheck and think that getting a degree in political correctness will pay the bills?
A few years later, I was happy to find a job I loved as a coordinator. Had I landed a job as a VR counselor, I would have been among the thousands forced to get a master’s degree to keep their job.
Did I mention that people in VR work for the government?
Think about it: People with 20 years of experience were forced to get a Master’s degree or lose their jobs to inexperienced people just out of school.
The government’s mantra is an oxymoron:
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I could tell you about on-line colleges who think “U is good an I go to the store for snakes” is good enough to throw a degree at. If you need a translation: It’s all right, I’ll go to the store for snacks. If I hadn’t seen it happen to people, I would never have believed it possible.
How about criminalizing a bad education? Why isn’t it extortion to take money from people, push them through a college meat grinder, and watch as they become employment hamburger?
Now I’m hungry.
The online degrees really are cringey.
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I’ve seen some of the curriculum and the graduates. The people graduating tried in all earnest to do their best. That’s what is so infuriating. At one time, you had to take grammar courses and courses that taught you how to write an essay. People are not prepared for the jobs they thought they were going to get.
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Many of us (public school teachers) retired before we were required to get a master’s – never mind our umpteen years of experience. Luckily, students now pursuing degrees in education know they need the Master’s right away so they can cut to the chase..
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It’s a shame that getting a college degree is no longer the same as getting and education. I wonder if that’s why it’s called “training” now?
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Some of these on-line colleges/technical universities have gone belly-up and left students high and dry. I know of one such person, that was almost ready to graduate.
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That is awful. Was the person left with debt and nothing to show for it, with no other university that would accept the credits?
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A few of the basic courses, were credited by a local community college. The accrued debt still stands.
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At least they received credit. I remember reading about a course offered where people spent thousands (it involved traveling) just to find out at the end of the course there were no credits.
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Happens altogether too often.
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