THE COLLEGE CONSPIRACY

Today my daughter, after ten years of university, is defending her thesis for her Masters in Sciences and Computers. It has been a long ten years during which she has worked, tutored, studied, won bursaries and grants, and also chalked up a hefty loan.  We have seen the costs of her education rise over the years at an alarming rate. Fortunately she is in a field that, should she move to the Silicon Valley or thereabouts, she could be very well paid ~ but still dependent upon outside sources for a job.  That she can think rationally, logically, solve problems, and is a fast thinker on her feet has very little to do with her formal education and much to do with the “programming” I put into her as a young child.  She was raised to be a non conformist in a conforming world, much like her Momma.

So it is odd that I stumbled across the film COLLEGE CONSPIRACY at the same time as she is standing in front of her peers and professors sweating her pretty self to bits and answering questions that I would not even understand. I always told my girls, I have high standards for you but I don’t care if you are plumbers or marry a plumber so long as you are happy and fulfilled in life. (I also added to go for taller men than short too, but that is another story!)

This is an excellent film.  Because visuals are not so important as what is said, I paid little attention to them and did other things as I listened. It is worth the time, especially if you have young kids and are planning a future for them.  Please do watch.

The movie debunks many myths, including the belief that Americans with college degrees earn $1 million more in lifetime income compared to high school graduates without a college degree.

From the time an American child reaches the 6th grade, they’re taught that the key to success in life is to do well in high school so that they can get accepted to the best possible college. The better grades they get in high school, the better college they will have an opportunity to get into. 

They are taught that if they get into a great college and get their college degree, any type of job they desire in the field of their choice will be there waiting for them. 

After getting their dream job they will be able to buy any car and house they desire, start their own family and live the American dream.

Most Americans today have an expectation of future economic success, simply by obtaining a college degree. The entire purpose of elementary school is to prepare students for high school. And the entire purpose of high school is to prepare students for college. In fact, the U.S. now has hundreds of college preparatory high schools that, at a cost of $25,000 per year, are suppose to increase students’ chances of getting into a top tier college. Students are taught to believe that if they don’t get into college, they will be on a path to nowhere and will have no chance of building a successful career.

Government regulations like “no child left behind” have left grade and high schools in shambles. Instead of teachers having the freedom to think outside the box and use creative techniques to prepare their students for the real world, they are taught to be narrow-minded and teach worthless information that will never help their students have successful careers. 

Today, there are no high schools left in America that teach students the knowledge necessary to start their own business, invent their own products, or even how to use the internet and other free resources to become educated about things without attending college.

The most important basic fact that most Americans don’t understand about 4-year colleges is that most Americans spend 6 years attending them before graduating. With U.S. tuition inflation for private colleges averaging 5.15% over the past half a decade, assuming this same rate of tuition inflation continues, a college with tuition of $30,000 today will have tuition of $38,563 in the sixth year a student attends it.

Statistics show that student loan debt has now surpassed credit card debt in the U.S., with many of those loans unable to be paid back, proving this scam is yet another system of debt enslavement set up by the banking elite.

In College Conspiracy, NIA analyzes the total cost to attend college by factoring in not just rapidly rising tuition expenses, but also the interest payments on student loans, and the lost income that college students would have earned if they worked at an average entry-level job that doesn’t require a college degree.

The college-industrial complex has created not only myths, but outright hoaxes, in order to scam American students into becoming indentured servants for life. 

Appearing also in this film is Gerald Celente who, in his usual sharp witty down-to-earth fashion, sheds more common sense upon the situation in five minutes than you will hear elsewhere in your lifetime. 

My girl just called me. It went like a dream and now, after all these years, she is going home to sleep like a baby after worrying so much about the whole process. And now, she gets on with her life.