LizzieMaine
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I know a PhD who's teaching high school English for $30,000 a year and is thankful to get it. That's less than I make managing a theatre, if such a thing is possible, with my measly high school education (and I have a B. A. in English and a B. A. in film studies working *under* me for considerably less than $30 G.).
When I was a kid, even our district superindentant wasn't a PhD. He was a chicken farmer who did school superintending on the side.
As for student debt, one of my theatre kids had the idea she needed a degree in photography in order to pursue a career as a photographer. A certain College of Art was more than happy to encourage that delusion, and mulcted her for over $20,000 for just the first year, after which she realized she'd never make enough money to pay back the debt so she quit before they could get her on the hook for the other 60 grand. If that's not a dirty stinking racket, it'll do till one gets here. (By the way, that was three years ago. That same Fine College is now charging the poor suckers upwards of $30,000 a year. I don't imagine the quality of the education has gone up $10,000 worth in the interval.)
All that being so, when I hear people quacking on and on about how "these spoiled brats today don't know what it's all about, I worked my way thru college making cole slaw at the KFC and they're just too lazy and entitled to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" I want to shove my shoe down their throats. *They* are the ones who don't know what it's all about.
When I was a kid, even our district superindentant wasn't a PhD. He was a chicken farmer who did school superintending on the side.
As for student debt, one of my theatre kids had the idea she needed a degree in photography in order to pursue a career as a photographer. A certain College of Art was more than happy to encourage that delusion, and mulcted her for over $20,000 for just the first year, after which she realized she'd never make enough money to pay back the debt so she quit before they could get her on the hook for the other 60 grand. If that's not a dirty stinking racket, it'll do till one gets here. (By the way, that was three years ago. That same Fine College is now charging the poor suckers upwards of $30,000 a year. I don't imagine the quality of the education has gone up $10,000 worth in the interval.)
All that being so, when I hear people quacking on and on about how "these spoiled brats today don't know what it's all about, I worked my way thru college making cole slaw at the KFC and they're just too lazy and entitled to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" I want to shove my shoe down their throats. *They* are the ones who don't know what it's all about.