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The disgrace of my inbox

Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 5 months ago to Education
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I checked my email today, and as a high school student looking to go into college soon, I get a lot of information about different colleges. This was a snippet from University of Notre Dame, telling me about pre-college programs I could enroll in:
Confronting Poverty: Bringing Service to Justice—Through an interdisciplinary lens, this course aims to answer the enduring question: Why are people poor? Students will explore the forces that maintain poverty and the forces that resist it. This unique course will also offer students the opportunity to engage in the local community to understand poverty through facts and lived experience. By the end of the course, students should have a sense of the history of poverty and of how poverty could become history.

How is THAT supposed to attract me?

(I just had to share this one, but there's been quite a few of a similar strain from different universities - goodness, public education is a mess!)

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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Molecular biology is definitely my passion, I cannot imagine my life without it- but I'm glad engineering works for you!
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and, if you can stand to consider engineering, I would
    heartily recommend it. . my retirement pay is good (I worked
    as an engineer for 37 years.). -- j
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are making the first step in staying strong by participating in this site. There are many intelligent people who share their knowledge. I've found it a great way to stay sane. Best wishes!
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you for your advice john, I've been looking quite a bit and I have not yet found a college that is offering me value. I'm definitely going to look at all of the colleges mentioned in this thread.
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    “I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
    - Ben Franklin

    It would definitely not be in his train of thought.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Congratulations to you both! That is wonderful. Oh, and I bet we can swap some stories for sure. :)
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Plusaf, I have no idea. My focus was raising my children to be advocates of reason and individuality. Early on in their education I realized I could not influence the "establishment". This country as a whole is long past the point when facts mattered.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow, I can relate. My daughter just graduated from dental school in May, and, boy, I could tell you stories....but you are so right; she is strong and confident.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Mama Emma... is there any kind of website or other clearinghouse where evidence of that kind of stupidity and immorality can be listed, posted and offered up to try to educate people who think all colleges and universities today are actually offering 'useful educations'???

    Link, suggestions, volunteers?
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago
    Understanding poverty seems like an important topic but not one you or I want to get a degree in.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's very interesting. It rings true. My wife was from a poor background, and she tell me about these things.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you Mama! She does have a "hard row to hoe" but, on the bright side, it has made her incredibly durable, aware, and very self-disciplined. :)
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Courses in religion are optional just as all the courses are. Like any other institution, you pursue a degree by taking the topics that you need to qualify. However, if you're going strictly technical then you should go to a technical institution.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The middle class ARE becoming the working poor, and it's by design. Our masters want us all to live on the liberal plantation. Disgusting. The middle class needs government subsidies in order to survive, which was a big reason for "Affordable Health Care".
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Gaigal, it is nothing lessthan heartbreaking to see what is happening in our healthcare system. It mirrors perfectly what is happening in our country. I wish your daughter the best. As we say in the south, she has a hard row to hoe.
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