It’s frightening to think of educational institutes (regardless of how well they fit that definition in the realm of for-profit schools) use the same or similar tactics to televangelists, who are rather pushy and the money given in hopes of some false reward being preached adds up really quickly. The worst part is that the people who are generally swindled into giving money to those televangelists can’t afford to be doing that.
Not only is that frightening, but it’s disgusting that students like Jason, who just wants to better himself in one of the few ways available to him, is being seen as more-or-less a bag of money by the staff members of the for-profit college rather than as a student who they should be helping in ways that are in his best interest. It’s difficult to believe that they would send students towards programs that weren’t very practical or useful in the long term unless the students specifically mentioned an interest in the criminal justice program, which had some practical use for getting jobs after completing the program.
It was difficult to read this piece, not because of the writing or the language, but because of the content. It makes me believe more strongly in the need for revisions to the education systems and the policies guiding them at all levels of government. Even recently, there are the occasional articles that come up about students who are unable to get loan forgiveness who have attended for-profit colleges because politics have gotten in the way of education. But like the reading discusses how colleges rely on inequalities to some extent no matter the college, there are more issues contributing to the problems of for-profit colleges and the problems of students like Jason than just the way that the colleges present themselves as a Godsend for those who are in need.
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