Thursday, November 12, 2009

Op-Ed rough draft

“College Tuition” Education today has become an abomination. Teachers no longer want to teach and students no longer want to learn. This is why I believe the entire college tuition should be paid in full at the first semester of the freshman year of college. Not only would that eliminate the poor, unintelligent, slacker, and careless students, but it would change the cash flow of the universities to be able to hire teachers who like to teach, not who are there to find an easy retirement job. By paying this tuition, poor , middle class, and unintelligent students would no longer be pressured to go. This would help the workforce and would also cut down on the number of student loans being drawn out of the federal government. Finally an idea to help the budget; teachers, students, and universities get back to a place of respect. Not some day care for eighteen year olds who want a break from responsibility. The most important change that paying the tuition up front is the professors. No longer would it be acceptable for old burnouts of their field to end up at a university teaching classes that they could care less about. To these teachers class is not a big deal. They have already left their mark writing books or publishing research and these students could care less about what is being taught. By paying the entire tuition up front these schools could “clean house” of professors like that and find real teachers. People who enjoy and feel the need to help students who want to be taught. This goes right back to cutting the poor and unintelligent students, creating an environment that professors would enjoy teaching in. In effect this, again, helps reestablish the respect that colleges deserve –not becoming a playground / / / So, i have kinda hit a writing wall and am stuck. Its about 300 words ish and seems scattered. I am giving up and gonna watch planet earth on BBC.

2 comments:

  1. I like your stance on paying tuition upfront to go to college. But.. what about if someone doesn't have any money and wants to go to college to learn and start making money? What if it's the people with money who takes school for granted? I didn't see any source introductions, but it's you rough so...just make sure you get them in there. the organization isn't that great, but I know it will come out better as soon as your writers block goes away. Ella

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  2. Very interesting topic. The one thing and I believe the most important is that you aren't suggesting on how this would be done. You are saying that colleges would be full of rich kids. I don't think it would work because there wouldn't be enough students at the universities to make this plan feasible. Are there any studies out that prove your point? Good topic and some good ideas but not enough support to make it realistic.

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