College Student Learns Exactly Why He's Getting SCAMMED At College

#college #charliekirk

[BarbieG]

Total scam.
In my day (nursing student) I was forced to take classes that had nothing to do with nursing, the body, medicine. It was irritating but "part of the program" aka
"part of a scam".

[jonellamoore]

My son attended college for 8 years and received a doctorate in Physics, a Masters in math and cannot find a job anywhere! He graduated Summa Cum Laude. He always told he’s overqualified for every job he’s applied for, unless he’s willing to work for DARPA or the DOD, which he doesn’t want to be involved in. It’s a huge scam!

[mathew]

I'll give the guy credit, for being civil

[chiefwaukon]

It's the "fault" of the student, the "fault" of the college, the "fault" of govt loan programs - "free" money raising tuition, the "fault" of parents paying for this nonsense, and the "fault" of society for saying you need a bunch of nonsense classes to work. Students need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for what they choose. Taxpayers should NOT have to pay off others' student loans, or for this college nonsense

[DMJohns]

I agree. I paid for the title, not the education.

[EastCoastBoi]

I got a double major in economics and finance. When I first started in finance, all my company wanted me to do was automate or streamline their excel spreadsheets. All those formulas I had to memorize in college, were just built in excel.

I transitioned to data analytics after teaching myself the programming language SQL and currently learning Python online.

I now realize that it would have been easier to just take boot camps to learn how to code and use excel, then go straight to work.

[craigollerhead]

It's the fault of the financial institution that governs funding at the University.

[asyouknowmesoiam]

My son, just, graduated with a CDL, the company paid for his training, food, tests, and a end job. In less than 3 months. Debt, 0. Possible pay, $250K

[wishmakr]

The problem is, that many employers want college-educated employees. Not all employers, but you will definitely have many more options if you have a degree in SOMETHING. It could even be liberal arts or gender studies. As long as you have that paper. I went to college. I work with dozens of people who went to college, and we don't work in the field we went to school for. Of course, that was in the 90s when I went to school. It was a lot cheaper.

[Traveling]

I was going for radiology and was told to take tap dancing as en elective 😩
That’s the moment I realized it was a GIANT SCAM!!!! I now own my own business and make way more than I would doing radiology.

[jradko]

My favourite debates with Charlie are the ones where they actually debate, rather than the ones where they just try to belittle him. He's very well educated and clearly is passionate about his craft.

[marcob]

College is only worth it if you study something practical. Studying nursing vs gender studies is a perfect example.

[rispatha]

My reasoning why college is a scam. Back in the 1980's you had a lot of choices for a 2-4yr degree. Those were great and offered the courses that were needed for the job markets needs. Sure you had to take a couple "electives" that were outside the scope of the degree but that was to insure that you had a diverse course of study to round off the degree and help you to think critically outside of that main course of study. You could get a 2yr degree for less than $6, 000. Then the Federal Department of Education came into fruition and started pushing the student loans like crazy. The colleges accepted anybody they could to get that guaranteed money flowing in from the government back student loans. They had classes filled long before the semester was to start and many students taking advantage of the fact that they now could get a student loan. During the start of it all the courses needed for those degrees changed very little.

Over time they started to toss in courses that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the course of study claiming that they are needed. This started to thin out the now overcrowded classrooms. Instead of having 200 students in a classroom they now had 100 students in the classroom. Yet they drove the cost up even more because the DOE backed those loans and paid in full regardless. So they had extra room in the classes because they thinned them out with arbitrary courses to the main course of study. So they drive the costs up even more. Then they started pushing in Middle Schools that college was needed in order to get a job.

That brought in more students and more money flowing in so the classrooms started to fill up again and they had more students wanting the same classes than they had room for. So they created new courses and new degrees that have absolutely NOTHING to do with what society needs and told those new students that they could find really great paying jobs in those fields of study. What was not there was the demand for those types of degrees at all so they had to create that "need" by forcing businesses to create positions within them that utilized those courses of study and degrees. They jacked the costs of the course up even more since they now had a demand.

If you could go back to 1985 and look up the course needs for a 2yr degree in computer science and compare that to what they say is needed for that same degree what would you find? The courses needed have a lot to do with NOTHING needed and the costs have risen by over 1, 000%. What used to be "electives" got turned into requirements.

[donlee.]

College degree nowadays is a status symbol.

[coldbluesteel]

Technical colleges matter more than a University. Theres more blue collar workers than white collar workers and just about every blue collar job is essential to the stability of the economy. Construction, mechanical, welding, production, farming, electrical, plumbing, waste management, train transportation, fuel logistics and etc. The survival of white collar jobs depend on some of the most basic blue collar jobs.

[TheRexTera]

It’s also the simple fact that it’s a place were you only surround yourself with other children. Actually being in the workforce forces young people to grow up to fit in.

[set]

I have a mental learning disability called dyscalculia. I can’t retain math like others can it just disappears. If I did math every day for a year, then took a break for a month, all I learned would be gone.

Now, when I wanted to go to college, like like over ten years now, I wanted to go to English and for creative writing classes, and acting.

I'm on disability and this would have been funded. Except that every single thing I wanted to take required a bachelor's degree, and to obtain a bachelor's degree, I had to pass their math classes, regardless of my disability. I be given adds such as a lower standard to pass, but I couldn't opt out.

And really, what did or does math have to do with creative writing, a novel, or acting if you know your weaknesses and how to work around them.

And I imagine that it's worse now, probably with gender studies and CRT. And you can't just not go, or you don't get your degree.

It is a scam. Why did creative writing need a bachelor's degree to go to? It makes no sense, and even I can understand the math isn't mathing problem here.

[EPUEPUEPUEPU]

As a college graduate I can say that some classes are unnecessary for ones degree at the same time College classes opens your mind to learning things you would have never learned on your own compared to somebody who just graduated high school alone. So no college is not a scam it of course can be fine tuned.

[midoribushittv]

I dropped outta college for many reasons Charlie stated here, and I got a few certs and gained employment doing entry level desktop support and now I'm hiring and training people. No college required.

[uhrznv]

My son is going to college for his job.
They required credits in a course for him to be eligible.
He took 1 semester in that course, got the job and is set. 😂
He doesn't have to get a degree, just the credits to prove he took the class.

Work smart, not hard.
His pay increase will more than pay off his credits. 🤣