More than a third of college graduates with student loans say they DIDN'T get their money's worth

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[–]mystriddlery 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Having just finished paying for school out of pocket without loans, I'd say the same thing. I worked while doing part time school and honestly I had so many online classes that the teacher put zero effort into, literally just linking to youtube videos to teach us and telling us which pages of the textbook to read, thats it. I'd feel pretty pissed if I grew up with everyone telling me the importance of college, to the point that I took out loans, and that was all I got.

Now, at my school at least, this was due to teachers not making enough money (for about 1/3rd of our teachers, their teaching gig was actually considered their second job because they made more elsewhere, there were strikes all the time over mismanagement of funds) so I'm not sure where this problem lies, but I think making the requirements for becoming a teacher, while also implementing some serious pay-raises would bring in more teachers who actually did their job well. I work in the school system now and can tell you schools have lowered their requirements for becoming a teacher by a ton.

[–]SundogsPlace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good for you! Smart enough to work and not take out loans you couldn't afford to pay back. You mention teachers being lazy and pointing to Youtube. If a person is hired to teach for an agreed upon salary, they should do what they were hired to do and teach. There's no other profession where it's acceptable not to do what you were hired to do or do it half-assed because you aren't paid what you want to be paid. These lazy teachers should be ashamed, and be fired. There are a whole lot of folks who would love to do this job for the agreed upon pay and do it correctly.