Subj : Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jul 18 2023 20:23:00

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

 > Perhaps, but that brings up ethical questions...  Why should a loan
 > company get to decide what your kid can major in?  That's none of their
 > business, IMHO.  I do see your point on them wanting some say on the
 > odds of them getting their money back one day, but... it's sticky.

 DW> Maybe it should not be the loan company but maybe the college.  I
 DW> don't know, it just seems like a lot of this could have been
 DW> avoided if people were not allowed to get a useless degree that
 DW> they were not going to parlay into something else (like Poly-Sci
 DW> to go to Law School, or English to go to Education School, etc.).

I doubt that most colleges care, when it comes right down to it.  A 
student getting a useless degree is still a paying student.  That's 
really all they're interested in.

 DW> It would mess up the indoctrination process, and also whatever
 DW> schemes the school has going to fleece young people out of a lot
 DW> of money.

Certainly.  Again, it doesn't matter what the student may be learning, 
just that they are paying.

 > I go back to my original statement above.  If a person decides to
 > spend/borrow money to get a useless degree, that's on them.  They will
 > (theoretically) have to pay back the loan regardless of what degree they
 > get, and if they want to make it hard on themselves, well....  ;-)

 DW> I don't disagree here.  My disagreement comes when a politician,
 DW> or political party, thinks it is my responsibility to help them
 DW> pay it off. :(

It's one of the most aggravating of current events that I can think of.  
Absolutely infuriates me.  There is no valid or justifiable reason to be 
doing it, other than a political stunt to win the votes of said students 
(and/or their parents).  That's all it is.


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