I don’t think funding is the problem. Colleges receive alot of money, but I feels like the resources are spent on people that probably shouldn’t be in school.
I’m a pretty smart dude, but the fact that I qualified for a full scholarship with housing in 7th grade says alot about the state of our education system. If a teacher is teaching a hundred students that probably aren’t benefiting from it, their time and resources are spread thin.
…I don’t think it was possible to fail most of my classes as long as I showed up.
Ok, but in this case you are incorrect. The whole “spending money poorly” thing doesn’t match up to the financial reality of most schools, in particular the many small ones. I’ve spent a good portion of my career in higher ed (among other things) administering my own paltry budget.
And your poor experiences aside, I promise you that what you are describing would work in any program I’ve administered unless the 7th grader was already capable of college level work. You just make it sound like you went to a rather low quality school.
Go back to pre-Regan days. The state paid for around 90% or so (depending) on the coat of education.
By the 2000s or so that number dropped to a paltry amount (something more like 15%).
My parents’ generation could go to a state school and pay off their entire bill for a year doing a few weeks of summer work. Now people rack up years worth of debt.
The financial reality is educating people is expensive. Just hiring enough competent professors and staff for a small university is potentially a rather significant number of millions annually. We need to go back to funding it socially rather than putting the burden on the individual.
I don’t think funding is the problem. Colleges receive alot of money, but I feels like the resources are spent on people that probably shouldn’t be in school.
I’m a pretty smart dude, but the fact that I qualified for a full scholarship with housing in 7th grade says alot about the state of our education system. If a teacher is teaching a hundred students that probably aren’t benefiting from it, their time and resources are spread thin.
…I don’t think it was possible to fail most of my classes as long as I showed up.
Ok, but in this case you are incorrect. The whole “spending money poorly” thing doesn’t match up to the financial reality of most schools, in particular the many small ones. I’ve spent a good portion of my career in higher ed (among other things) administering my own paltry budget.
And your poor experiences aside, I promise you that what you are describing would work in any program I’ve administered unless the 7th grader was already capable of college level work. You just make it sound like you went to a rather low quality school.
Go back to pre-Regan days. The state paid for around 90% or so (depending) on the coat of education.
By the 2000s or so that number dropped to a paltry amount (something more like 15%).
My parents’ generation could go to a state school and pay off their entire bill for a year doing a few weeks of summer work. Now people rack up years worth of debt.
The financial reality is educating people is expensive. Just hiring enough competent professors and staff for a small university is potentially a rather significant number of millions annually. We need to go back to funding it socially rather than putting the burden on the individual.