so is this how it is then?

If you don't like the system and don't have the money to spend on it.
Or you just don't want to be paying off student debt for the rest of your life.

Just be an "autodidact" and study the materials for free on the internet.
Isn't that what you are paying all that money for is for a "professor" to hold your hand and spoon feed you an education.
Put an effort into learning some things for yourself.

It's alright to be a self taught autodidact, just don't be a racist.

Yeah, but nobody is interested in any of my ideas for improving it.
Because it seems to be too much like socialism.

The idea that all education should be for free and should be subsidized by the government and payed for with taxes.
Is why Democrats kicked Bernie Sanders out of the Democrat party.

It seems that those in power want for higher education to remain a status symbol to separate the rich from the lower class.

Poor Bernie Sanders championed my cause resulting in the wealthy and powerful having a knee jerk reaction
which ended up with Hillary Clinton running against Donald Trump, Hillary being the only person who could have ever lost to Trump.

So oops, I guess Donald Trump getting into the Whitehouse is as much my fault as anyone else's, sorry about that.

No tricks, no limitations, education should be for free for everyone to get as far with it as they are able to.

The idea itself is simplicity and the only complications arise when penny pinchers try to
make "rules" to start excluding people which goes against the spirit of the whole idea.

BUT, the point is, WTAF? MI is a poor state, but what would an audit find? The fact the state had no contingency plan for online schooling just blew my mind.

Heres the thing I don't think you are racist, but you do tend to use sources/articles that tends to paint a sketch that black, urban/city areas are the worst of the worst, and even when we add money, extra teachers, etc to those place no net gain will be made. It paints in broad strokes that maybe we shouldn't waste our taxes/treasure/capitol on certain groups.

And I never actually see you bring up artcles on the Top 10 worse States/Areas. It's usually Baltimore/VA/DC. I know that's because you live near by. To others that don't know that it looks like you are cherry picking the black districts, areas and not bringing up the top 10 worst States for education (Which tend to be majority white or mostly white Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Alabama, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee according to world pop review/wallethub as of 2023)

And I can say that lower standards does shit for no one... You still can allow for extenuating circumstances. If you allow that Charles was pretty much homeless in 9th Grade and 10th Grade being shipped back and forth to his 2 grandmas and his ma when she was straight and still managed a 3.18 gpa has to count for something. I mean no fucking chance in hell I would've been able to hold a 3.18 in his situation. So Maybe if you are State Run Governors School that people move onto campus and stay in dorms give Charlie-Boy a little credit for maintaining a 3.18 when he didn't know where or if he was going to have a roof over his head that night to do the assignments for classes. Also take into account he blew your Placement Tests out the water and give him the god damn common curtesy of a round up to the minimum of 3.2. Sorry that still bugs the shit out of me. 


Edit: I should say the State Run Governors School did eventually nix a gpa minimum and act/sat min (they still do entrance exams... ) and they do have gpa min for qualifying for financial aide though which is tantamount  to having gpa minimums for most. 

If you want to fix it then ban private schools and force the rich kids into the public system.