As Barbara Ehrenreich noted in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America , it can cost a hell of a lot to be poor. From residential motels that charge by the week (but don’t require a deposit) to rent-to-own furniture stores and predatory used-car loans, there is a thriving segment of the market dedicated to charging poor people a premium for stuff that would otherwise not be available at all.
I teach high school, and it is incredibly dispiriting to try to enforce standards. I have a reputation as a hard-marking bitch. Then they come home from university and thank me for teaching them how to write an essay. We teach with the constant potential for mom to phone up and tell us we're being too hard on little Jimmy or Jenny. I once had a hairdresser mother ask me if I actually knew how to teach essay writing. Hey, I don't tell her she doesn't know how to cut hair.
"Do your best" at the University of Nocturnal Aviation (dot com), while taking on a 5-figure inescapable debt, and see if it does you any good.
I am regularly thankful that my college has taken a stand against grade inflation, because that is exactly what happens when the school does not take that stand. I had the experience this year of being on the phone with a parent who called me several times because his child was just a little shy of enough credits to graduate. His position was that he had paid a lot of money for her to attend this college and the college needed to keep up their end of the deal. Sorry, Dad, it doesn't work like that. (His daughter was mortified and kept telling me how sorry she was that I had to deal with him).
The key is to tout your enviable p-ness in the advertising, but hire cheap, lower p-ness adjunct faculty to teach most of the courses. You're welcome.
I still don't understand why the man can't afford a good hairstylist.
I was watching that very episode last night!
I teach high school, and it is incredibly dispiriting to try to enforce standards. I have a reputation as a hard-marking bitch. Then they come home from university and thank me for teaching them how to write an essay. We teach with the constant potential for mom to phone up and tell us we're being too hard on little Jimmy or Jenny. I once had a hairdresser mother ask me if I actually knew how to teach essay writing. Hey, I don't tell her she doesn't know how to cut hair.
*No profit* *No interest*
I suppose if they could have put up a billboard on Mars...
Shorter Steltzner: We didn't build that.
"Do your best" at the University of Nocturnal Aviation (dot com), while taking on a 5-figure inescapable debt, and see if it does you any good.
Needs moar Agateaean Wall.
I think the same guy taught Contracts at my law school.
I am regularly thankful that my college has taken a stand against grade inflation, because that is exactly what happens when the school does not take that stand. I had the experience this year of being on the phone with a parent who called me several times because his child was just a little shy of enough credits to graduate. His position was that he had paid a lot of money for her to attend this college and the college needed to keep up their end of the deal. Sorry, Dad, it doesn't work like that. (His daughter was mortified and kept telling me how sorry she was that I had to deal with him).
The key is to tout your enviable p-ness in the advertising, but hire cheap, lower p-ness adjunct faculty to teach most of the courses. You're welcome.
Some definite WTF??!! moments in that story. And yes, Trump is an even bigger prick than you imagined.
We used to say the opposite, "IHTFP". Was a strange place.
no but i'm thinking of going in.
just for yucks.
Institute has the finest professors?
Paradise, truly.
Well, you're talking Romney, Republicans, Florida, and fundraising ... that does call for a shameless sleazeball of olympian proportions.