What a Steaming Pile of Shit

The LAST thing this country needs with so few jobs available is MORE college graduates. I can't even believe somebody would write such a stupid pile of shit column as one supporting the existence of for-profit schools.

By the way, many if not most traditional colleges nowadays offer online or distance courses, and more of them offer courses at night. My old college, UNR, was one of the first universities to actually start catering to working adults, offering degree programs in a variety of areas so that students wouldn't have to go into tons of debt to finish by being forced to take day courses.

For-profit colleges exist for one reason only, and that is to scam the federal government on grants and loans. Their "degrees" aren't worth the paper they are written on. Unfortunately, students who have been conned to go to these "colleges" find themselves saddled with monstrous debt, which they CANNOT discharge in bankruptcy.

It is much better for students to go the community college route, then university, if they are so inclined.

But in any case, a college degree is a piss-poor substitute for a union card.