Privatizing Education.

lisarea · #1 08-13-2004, 12:08 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08...ool.invest.ap/

It's too cheap a shot to take at free market types, I'll grant, but damn. I mean, DAMN.

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Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with errors, including:

The United States has 53 states but the "flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states" -- Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.

There are two houses of Congress -- the Senate and the House, and "one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively."

And tuition was between $450 and $1450, for a ten-week course. Of THIS stuff.

LadyShea · #2 08-13-2004, 01:05 AM

Just another version of a degree mill. Sad and should definitely be out of business.

livius drusus · #3 08-13-2004, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by LadyShea

Just another version of a degree mill. Sad and should definitely be out of business.

Worse, I think, because they didn't even provide a fake high school diploma; they just claimed their bullshit certificate was a hsd, and kept on doing it in defiance of a court order.

I particularly like the targeted to Latino immigrants aspect. What a bunch of weasels. :devious:

LadyShea · #4 08-13-2004, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

Worse, I think, because they didn't even provide a fake high school diploma; they just claimed their bullshit certificate was a hsd, and kept on doing it in defiance of a court order.

I particularly like the targeted to Latino immigrants aspect. What a bunch of weasels. :devious:

No shit! How do these scammers live with themselves? You know those that target the elderly, immigrants in this case, the disabled....seriously they must have no conscience whatsoever.

catalyst · #5 08-15-2004, 05:25 PM

Pretty much sounds like the high school I went to. Of course, it was low-end public education.

lisarea · #6 08-15-2004, 05:54 PM

More

I do hate pretty much any scam targeted toward vulnerable people. (I hate all scams, but especially those designed to specifically target the poor, the stupid, the sick, and the otherwise desperate.)

This sort of thing, though, is the worst of the worst. Not just this, but to a lesser extent, those private vocational schools, too. The people who get scammed by this sort of thing are doing exactly what they're supposed to do. They're trying to better themselves by getting an education and getting a job they can support themselves on. They go into debt to do it, they work very hard at it sometimes, and they just end up getting fucked.

That Gossai guy needs to live in a fucking box.