ACADEMIC ACNE There has been a random proliferation of strange educational facilities of late. If the seeming trend is allowed continue schools will, before too long, outnumber students.
Colleges and universities of every level, type, description and financial standings from superbly erect to sub-supine are being created to meet needs of any breather of the thin air we share. It is painfully obvious that they are not and never have been educational institutions. The vast majority of them are blatant false fronts for money-grabbing schemes with eager students and equally gullible parents as victims. One has to wonder how our duly elected officials can allow existing to live and see new ones being created almost daily.
You don't need a special degree of any sort to know that which I am herein making reference. If you read, even slightly, any printed materials newspapers, magazines, or if you seek entertainment and edification by way television, radio or Internet you know, from personal experience, exactly the type of "school" we are allow to pollute our lives, our livelihood as they we pay and over-pay them to destroy our basic cultural values.
We don't need any new laws to combat such evil! Not one!
We do need to alert our present, duly-elected official to enforce existing laws. Beyond that the single most important step in the whole process of clearing the air so we can get at the crime being done. Encourage your political representative to fight such evil and it is most important that
we support him when he does so!o. Far too often a political concept is a background for this sort of dishonesty in business. To cheat in then educational area is bad; to do so in the medical even worse but cheating should not be permitted in any occupational field.''
The illicit "schools" are growing in number. They are causing hurt in many areas. Your local college probable needs funds to undertake worthy project they have planned for years. Even a small portion of the million of dollars spend annually on fake schooled at every level, would be most welcome in the average college budget.
To start with: to what extent is a "publication" responsible when a subscriber is financially harmed because of neglect to properly evaluate their client's background? This is not too remote from the concept of an employer hiring a non-citizen when he knows their proffered Social Security number is a fake.
We need to oppose these "college degrees for everyone" scams.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 9-30-06 [c-434wds]
