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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should he be forgiving loans?[/quote]

Why should people have to take out massive loans just to get an education in the first place?[/quote]

I disagree with Trump on more or less everything, but shouldn’t that all depend on what students decide to study? I’ll gladly subsidize more doctors or teachers in rural communities no one wants to work in, but not let’s say, a $60k per year degree in underwater basketweaving from a private college. [/quote]

What you’re really saying is that you’re willing to subsidize a vocational education (engineering, doctors, nurses, teachers) not traditional college/university education (philosophy, English literature, etc) which is meant to expand the mind. It seems more and more people treat college/universities as vocational schools for white collar jobs. It is a wonder that students are allowed electives.[/quote]
dp. if you put it that way.. yes.  At least people can find good paying jobs in vocational trade, and pay back their loans.

Your "college is not a vocational school" rant is tiresome, grandma/grandpa.[/quote]

Listen, Flower, parents and students already expect colleges to land you a job, so they’ve become vocational schools, so they should be treated and recognized as such. As the other poster said, traditional college study should be the priority and subsidized differently or not at all.[/quote]
Then, no one should subsidize your navel gazing major.  Do it on your own dime, sweetie.[/quote]

Ahhh here's another MAGA twit who's  fully subscribed to the FALSE notion that some massive percentage of kids are getting degrees in "underwater basket weaving."[/quote]

It is clear you have not attended a university or college in the last 30 years. Kids these days are even getting weak ass milktoast computer science degrees and finding out afterwards that nobody is interested in employing them because they cannot engineer their way out of a paper bag.

Something dramatic has to change. And it needs to come from both ends. Dry up the funding in the form of student loans and close a huge number of the schools and programs. What we have now is a distorted fiction with no proper market forces. [/quote]

I do a lot of interviews.  You wouldn't believe the number of recent grads who can't even perform simple programming tasks like loop over a list or array.  I've started hiring older people and career switchers.[/quote]

I actually do believe it. I somehow ended up with /computerscience or the equivalent on reddit, and it is a huge number of kids complaining about being unemployable. We wrote an interpreter / compiler for Ruby in graduate school that ultimately ran code on the java virtual machine. I have confidence 80% or more of these "computer science" graduates do not even understand the principles behind the java virtual machine, and certainly would never be able to work with bytecode to run on it. [/quote]

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