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Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 02:22
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Monday, December 1, 2025 5:39 PM
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More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.
A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.”
That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.”
That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: “Upwardly mobile” was almost entirely synonymous with “college educated.”
But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing . . . except onerous debt.
Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased “help” such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.
But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don’t get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career.
Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like “Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society” and “Abolition of Whiteness.”
Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?
Meanwhile, grade inflation and faculties increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduce the return even on “real” classes.
Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white-collar jobs an increasingly unsafe bet.
Prospective students once could safely bet that a hard science or math degree was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, including tech.
Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.
Yes, college can still absolutely make sense for many young people, especially at the schools that have kept tuition affordable and academic standards rigorous — but the idea that everyone should go never made much sense, and is plainly false today.
Higher Ed, Inc. is on notice: Squeezing students with sky-high tuitions while offering subpar, ideology-driven curriculum is a death sentence.
America’s students have caught on to the scam.
Yup.
Have fun paying those debts off, dummies.
And you didn't even party. You were too busy burning shit down for Billionaire George Soros.
Sad.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:22 AM
The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math
A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-college-students-who-cant-do-elementar
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Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the university. Read, and weep for the future of America.
Roughly one in eight freshmen lack rudimentary high-school math skills, defined as geometry, algebra and algebra 2. It gets worse: Students who had been placed in a remedial high-school math class in 2023 had roughly fifth-grade-level abilities. Only 39% could correctly round the number 374,518 to the nearest hundred—a third-grade skill.
Haha. Good luck with the penniless transition which will require rounding up or down on every purchase if somebody doesn't come up with a better plan. I can't wait to see all the videos where 30IQ Democratic Party voting, college "educated" monkeys are attacking people working the cash registers for screwing them out of 2 cents on their transaction when it gets rounded up.
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Because so many incoming students were numerically illiterate, the university added a remedial class for middle- and elementary-school math. Remarkably, among students placed into that math course, 94% had completed an advanced math class in high school (e.g., pre-calculus, calculus or statistics) and received an average A- in their math courses.
Is this an indictment of A) the University of California’s admissions; B) public K-12 schools; C) U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings; or D) all of the above? If you chose D, you’re correct.
Start with A. The UC Board of Regents in 2020 scrapped standardized tests as an admissions requirement under the guise of promoting “equity.” The likely real reason: Blacks and Hispanics score lower on average on the SAT. Requiring applicants to submit standardized tests scores could also make it easier for critics to prove the university is providing racial preferences, which were prohibited by a 1996 voter referendum. The math-proficiency analysis suggests it may be doing so on the sly.
Amid a push to boost diversity and overall enrollment—and thus rake in more government student aid—UC San Diego admitted increasing numbers of unqualified applicants from low-income high schools: “In order to holistically admit a diverse and representative class, we need to admit students who may be at a higher risk of not succeeding,” the report says.
At a higher risk of not succeeding? What the actual fuck are you even talking about??? Who could possibly fail the unfailable?
Boy... If I went to college only 15 years later and benefited from the lowering of the bar so far that any retard can pass a high school advanced placement math class, I'd have coasted to a degree with Straight A's today without ever taking a book home to do homework.
Assuming, of course, I could even get a spot anywhere as a no-good evil white male, that is.
But don't worry about that though. They're ALL going to fail now, and they're going to be stuck for life with college debt that didn't do anything for them except make them literal wage slaves for life.
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This has done a grave disservice to ill-prepared students, who take longer to complete degrees (and thus accrue more debt) and drop out of more rigorous majors. Few if any students who take remedial math successfully complete an engineering degree, the report notes.
The university’s admissions place a heavy emphasis on GPAs, but these don’t reliably reflect student preparation because grades are inflated. Some students may also cheat their way to high grades. Smartphones and AI have made it easier to do so. At the same time, scores on AP tests have become a lesNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME