Politics_Observer wrote:@BlutoSays
But wouldn't the taxpayers benefit from a well-educated workforce and see a return on that investment in terms of additional tax revenue being taken in the future due to the fact people are able to be more productive and innovative because they are better educated? Wouldn't a better-educated workforce be beneficial to the economy?
So we'll only have a well-edumacated workforce if the tax payer pays for it? No, I don't think so.
Our educational standards have dropped since we've been dumping more and more money into education. Do you think engineers in the 1970s were going to be forced into woke bullshit and CONSTANTLY? Absolutely not. Many of them were getting paid out of pocket and they felt it, so they wanted to make the most of it - STEM, programming, mechanical engineering, hard sciences. Constrast that with today, where many Americans are going into the easy subjects: journalism, psychology, polysci and other useless recreational degrees. We're dumping much more tax payer $$$ into education than we did before and those who have an appreciation for the value will take the difficult subjects.
It starts in middle to high school where standards have been lowered (much further than just grading on a curve) and stupid shit is introduced by democrats like pass/fail or no grades at all, "math is racist", open book tests and students that get an unlimited number of tries to pass a test. It has gotten ridiculous leading to the lowest common denominator as the goal.
I give you one thousand dollars to go in a store and buy what you want. You EARN one thousand dollars and go into the store to buy what you want. Results will be much different if you aren't paying for it. Quite seriously, Americans have it too good and are spoiled and entitled. I say that as an American. The fix to that is to take away easy money.
What are you going to do with these degrees (quite expensive)? But you get to hit up the tax payer for your mistakes?
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