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Default An idea I had concerning Student Loans

Frank wrote:
On 8/28/2019 12:44 PM, Bill wrote:
Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

Private trade schools and charter schools are often just big
scams -
the "official" community colleges and polytechnics have
generally good
teachers and turn out qualified graduates.




It depends on the school.Â* A local 'offical ' community
college was much
different.Â* A co worker taught for several years at one at
night.Â* He is
very good at teaching.

One year he was teaching a 2nd course in electrical.Â* The
students ere
grown men that their companies sent them there for classes.
He found
out that they had just been passed through the first part and
did not
know much.Â* He had to fail about half of them.Â* He was called
in by the
head of the college and said that his services were no longer
needed.

Seems that the college was just after the money from the local
businesses and all the students 'had to pass with a C or better'.


Private colleges in particular work hard to make certain that
students are "successful".Â* Big state schools are a little more
"callous". Community colleges generally attract a much less
"traditional" group of students, many of them out of high
school for many years. A department chair is likely to say that
if the students aren't being successful it's the teacher's
fault. Surely the failing students will say it's the teacher's
fault. No college likes to lose students. Graduate schools
expect to lose some. There's no place for ineptitude on the
part of the students or the teachers. The "bottom line
analysis" is very often done in terms of numbers, since that's
the easiest way.

Brick and mortar schools are quite concerned about the upcoming
ones on the Internet.Â* They are quite concerned with "staying
relevant". Loneliest place on most campuses these days--the
library.Â* Little joke: What's a "library"?


Same thing happened to a classmate of mine at a community college
teaching civil engineering.Â* I was talking to a a student at U of
Del the other day and she said they are still tough.


I think engineering courses can afford to be tougher since the
students are tougher, and they tend to be better prepared--and
they didn't choose engineering as a major because they were
looking for the path of least resistance.