education apology
by Steven Doss
Published: January 3, 2008
My name is Steven Doss, and I am paying $120,000 to make $50,000.
This is by far the biggest problem with the American higher education system: the money involved. It’s not enough that Universities take up four years of your life as you struggle to get a sheet of paper that will get you into that wonderful world of “Middle Class” (if you chose the correct major. I, unfortunately, chose a major that I enjoyed and now have to spend three more years to get to that tax bracket), they also charge an exorbitant amount of money so that you can get to that place.
This places a huge damper on those people, like me, that wish to go to college, yet their families cannot afford to send them. It is like the higher education gods do not want those “unmentionable” people to better themselves, and I understand why: illegal immigration.
You may ask yourself, “What does immigration have to do with the price of college?”
As of this writing, there is a huge debate concerning illegal immigrants. Currently, some in this great country of ours, which was totally founded by naturally born citizens, wish to deport all illegal immigrants. This places a huge burden on the hundreds of industries that live by illegal immigrants to find new and exciting sources of labor. The obvious next step in the ladder of menial labor is the poor. Who else would stand out in front of the Home Depot to wait on the chance to make a couple bucks?
It most certainly will not be someone that has a shiny piece of paper from Harvard.
So, in closing, I would like to apologize for to the higher-ups for going to school. I forgot my place in society, thinking that upward mobility was the way to go, and I have “rocked the boat.” I have forgotten that education is not for people like me, those that have grown up in “underprivileged” households, whose only route to higher education is through the army.
I have given the country one less person that will risk his life to get the “American Dream.” I have also given such wonderful industries like construction, landscaping and Wal-Marting, one less source of backbreaking, underpaid labor when the borders of this country are sealed. At least I am going into social work and ministry rather than anything that will make me a lot of money. So, maybe I will be standing out there with those who can be used as oxen for the machine… if only to hand them some soup when it gets freezing.
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