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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The outrage toward academics is such a pathetic sign for our country. Read history and you’ll see you’re being manipulated for someone else’s gain.

First of all, you’re talking about a tiny number of people. And universities are using more adjunct professors who are exploited and don’t receive benefits at all.

If you want the perks of a job, you can get the job.  Being bitter that military people get a GI Bill or professors’ kids get a break at their school is immature and ignorant.  None of you whiners would do either one of those things because all that matters to you is money and prestige.

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I'm a tenured professor. At my private institution, students, including children of faculty and other staff, must be accepted under their own merits. I have known of cases where they had to start somewhere else, maybe even a community college, before transferring to our institution. If there is somewhat of a hook for being a faculty child, I think it's great. It is a perk that helps offset our low pay and lack of savings for our kids' college education because we were making peanuts in grad school and had to prioritize retirement savings. We're often 10 years behind our peers in saving for retirement due to graduate school, post docs, etc.

But sure, pick on academics and institutions of higher ed. See what happens to our country when they disappear.[/quote]

Eyeroll. So because you had to delay saving for retirement your kid deserves to go to Harvard or Amherst rather than Georgetown or Bucknell? No.[/quote]

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