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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a sad development. I mean, what do Americans expect? [b]There are way too many colleges in the US [/b]that aren't doing well, and were never good in the first place. Surely you don't want your kid going there. If you have a student who can't get into a decent college, you need to have them attend community college, then transfer to a better university. [/quote]

I agree with this, and I'll take it a step further - there are too many people in colleges.  We've promulgated the "college for all" mantra, and it's done many kids a disservice, leaving them saddled with student loan debt after attending bottom of the barrel schools, and being no more employable after graduation (if they do graduate) than they would have been otherwise.  Plus, now employers expect that applicants will be "college graduates" for all sorts of posts where it isn't at all necessary.  [/quote]

Enterprise car rental, for example, brags that they are the largest hirer of college graduates each year. You don’t need a college degree to run a car rental desk at an airport. [/quote]

You need a degree to get promoted. Do you really want to live in a society where less people are educated? [/quote]

I would like to live in a society where people, educated or not, understand the difference between "less" and "fewer."  [/quote]

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