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Originally Posted by Botnst
Higher ed is where I go back to laissez faire. I think there should be completely open admission in all publicly funded higher ed: If you have the financing and want to give it a shot, give it what ya got. Darwin's boney hands sift the chaff from the wheat.
I hate public funding for private education -- at any level. It dissipates public dollars on what should be private enterprise. If your ivy league can't survive without public funds, then you are a publicly funded institution and some pol gets to tell you what to do.
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Since more and more public money is used to pay for higher education, the cost of that education has increased as well. Perhaps by keeping the public money out of it, it might bring the cost back down to something a bit more manageable.
In speaking with the school board in our district, I've learned that they are no longer pushing college, but steering much of the student body (those that aren't academically adept) into trade schools instead.
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