(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM (#1248831)
"All your life" which means you're under 30. Things were going alright till around 2000 when means-testing got popular and higher education was defunded in favor of government backed student loans. This made perverse incentives to raise tuition rates every yesr by extreme amounts and spend that money on corrupt projects like new unnecessary buildings. They did similar with some k-12 schools, one place they spent millions on a fancy gym, pool, and track then people complained that more money does nothing.
Yes, it does nothing when the money is not spent on hiring more teachers and better materials for the actual students. Republican motto: "Government doesn't work, elect us and we'll prove it." Same thing UK conservatives are doing to the NHS because they want to privatize it and suck more money from the working class.
So thanks and good points, but universal education works very well in less-corrupt countries. Private schools can still exist, but saddling young people with insane debt so they can get a shit paying job is a recipe for societal collapse. We're going through it right now.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @08:55PM
"All your life" which means you're under 30. Things were going alright till around 2000 when means-testing got popular and higher education was defunded in favor of government backed student loans. This made perverse incentives to raise tuition rates every yesr by extreme amounts and spend that money on corrupt projects like new unnecessary buildings. They did similar with some k-12 schools, one place they spent millions on a fancy gym, pool, and track then people complained that more money does nothing.
Yes, it does nothing when the money is not spent on hiring more teachers and better materials for the actual students. Republican motto: "Government doesn't work, elect us and we'll prove it." Same thing UK conservatives are doing to the NHS because they want to privatize it and suck more money from the working class.
So thanks and good points, but universal education works very well in less-corrupt countries. Private schools can still exist, but saddling young people with insane debt so they can get a shit paying job is a recipe for societal collapse. We're going through it right now.