open letter from Chancellor Katehi
and then a response:
open letter to chancellor linda p b katehi
not saying anything just an update
cwnl:
Secrets of the 99%
I am the 99%
So are you.
I wish I had of listened to my parents and NOT went off to college. Corny as it sounds I really wish I could turn back the hands of time. They don’t fully educate kids about the downside to going to college. They don’t like to talk about what will happen if you get in college, decide you don’t want it anymore and decide to drop out. They don’t talk about the huge burden of student loans.
This post really hits home to me. I’m in the 99% like most everyone else. I went to college and garnered tens of thousands of dollars of debt to receive my degree which only qualifies me for jobs that pay less than entry level food service jobs in my city. I had so many expectations of my life after college would be and it was nothing like that. I don’t know who’s job it is to provide people with a realistic vision of what life after your degree is like, but I do my best to share the experience with the world. I would never discourage someone from receiving an education if they wanted, but I’m trying make sure the people around me are informed of what that means afterward.
A degree doesn’t secure anything any more. I know people with Master’s degrees in business that work in a call center now. Life is becoming a lot more about who you know and what you can accomplish than your pedigree. How are you coping with it and navigating through life?
It’s depressing that 1% of the American population get to decide and manipulate the future of the rest. It’s even more depressing that only a small percentage of that 99% is aware of what is happening.
Don’t be ignorant. If the American economy doesn’t change now, we will feel the harsh repercussions of it in the future. You wouldn’t wanna spend your life paying for something that was suppose to help you, but in turn destroyed you?
One of the reasons why I dropped my WR2 class at IVC is because my teacher blatantly disrespected and argued against the existence and reasonings for the 99%. For those of us who spoke out against the circumstances of being in the 99%, my teacher lumped us all together as the ‘generation against education’ group. She said that our generation is so anti-education that it’s sad, and that we take for granted the opportunities that other country’s deny their citizens. She COMPLETELY NEGLECTED our arguments on the debt a student has to pay for HIGHER EDUCATION, not education in general, and that we aren’t against the prospect of schooling but the methods and consequences we are stuck with in order to achieve such schooling. She also blamed the lack of employed graduates on the people themselves, making no never mind to the economy’s part in the problem.
She represented the ignorance so many people show towards the unfortunate 99%.
And…how pointless a degree can be when you’re just plain dumb.
