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lbrtbell

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5. It happened to me

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 12:51 PM

Dec 2012

And I'm a Gen X'er!

Education has been going down the toilet for decades. I have literally learned more during my post-school adult years, than I ever learned in a classroom.

Even if you have the money to go to college, the quality of education is in the shitter.

Other countries provide college education for free, and that's what our country should be doing. Nobody should have to go into debt for college.

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US is Only Developed County where Younger Generation will Receive Less Education than their Parents [View all] The Straight Story Dec 2012 OP

Also, children today also "enjoy" shorter lifespans than their parents'. nt Romulox Dec 2012 #1

Class War: No affordable college or medical care; work at crap jobs; die young. The Greedheads byeya Dec 2012 #2

That's sad. What can be done about this? ecstatic Dec 2012 #3

Another symptom of a disappearing American middle-class with long-term consequences - a caste system leveymg Dec 2012 #4

It happened to me lbrtbell Dec 2012 #5

kick. We need to be talking about education every chance we get liberal_at_heart Dec 2012 #6