Thread would have been way better titled "Higher" Education and talking about legalization of marijuana.
There is a lot of talk about a student loan bubble and I could see it happening. 14% of the countries population at upwards of 1.5 $trillion. Total mortgage debt is 10.3 trillion for comparison. Countless people came and went from our program, some fizzled out after a couple years in. Or the stereotype of the $100,000 liberal arts degree. I have a friend who dropped out with $15,000 dollars in loans, but was able to pay them off though sheer luck. The "public" university I went to cost as much as our two Big U's. Throw in wage stagnation and its
not a good look.
On a personal level, I saw a Muslim student leverage his race/religion against a tenured professor who was in his last year. The professor had ran out of ****s to give, and was telling mildly sexist jokes and calling kids idiots for fun. Lots of kids wouldn't come to class but would show up for tests, so the professor put classroom specific topics on the next test. Many failed the test, but this one kid caused a scene in the classroom and made it about how he couldn't come to class because of his religion. The next class period, the professor had "changed his mind" about the test, and a new book-centric test was issued.
Something like 10% of our student population was international and the cheating was rampant among the Asian and African kids. They all had assignments from previous classes from their friends or colleagues. The professors all knew but nothing was ever done about it. They pay at least full tuition, possibly more, and a lot of the Asians were getting jobs at the big 4 which made the program look really good.
There is also a real issue with professor inconsistency. I had an early level accounting class with an adjunct professor who was supposed to be a CPA, but he couldn't seem to do basic accounting. Or this brilliant professor who had only come on to help the business college gain top level accreditation and his reward was carte blanche to work on a standard modeling of intercompany transfers, or some **** like that. Unfortunately, he couldn't convey information in ways mere mortals could discern. There were a lot of really good professors too, but how specifically bad those two professors were really stood out to me.