It should be a federal law that institutions of higher learning must find jobs for their graduates in their respectable disciplines. It is a shame that students spend all of their money as well as tax payers fundings, to attend these institutions but still cannot find work. These colleges and universities are making millions of dollars off of these students and when they graduate, many of them cannot find decent work within their respectable fields. Which causes me to raise the question, ” is a college degree a scam ” ? If colleges and universities do not find work for their graduates, then I believe that a college degree is not too far from being a scam. Students take out several loans in order to acquire an education, and when they graduate several of them are unemployed, or they have mediocre jobs that they did not go to school to be trained for. Many of the core curriculum classes have nothing to do with the professions that most of these students are going into, but instead, are in the curriculum just to make money off of students. Believe me, I should know, since I hold five degrees. Let’s think about it for a moment, if we are so serious about education in America like we pretend, why are educators paid peanut salaries from pre-K, up to the college level?  Also, what about the proliferation of online schools and classes popping up all across this country?  Who is on the other side of the computer?  Who cares?  As long as we can make a profit. A great deal of these online educational institutions, are nothing but diploma mills. The point that I am making here is that education in the U.S., is more about making money than about individuals truly being educated and productive individuals in our society. It is all about the money. We tell individuals to go to college and acquire an education, then we turn around and give individuals who constantly have illegitimate children,  free houses and food stamps, who make no effort to get an education, and thus, undermine those who work hard to get their college education. What a scam. Is getting a college education really worth it today, or is it a waste of time?  Some will argue that a degree is still valuable, while others will argue that it is not. I will let you be the judge.

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