Terrorist attacks had a deep impact on us, but mostly on our future education.
The illusional promises from a busy government to fight for our dignity, cost money the nation did not have. Since we are in a recession and in great debt the government has decided to pay for the war by taking away our classes and teachers.
We, the students, are now forced to hunt for classes on campus.
I sat in my English class, watching, as more than 50 people tried to add the university gateway class, English 101. The first thing that came to my mind was that, they should have not missed their online appointment to register for their fall classes.
Right?
No.
Soon, I realized that that’s what someone want us to believe.
For some reason we are ignoring why this is happening but most importantly we keep allowing it to happen.
We are allowing someone in an office who makes about 1,039 times more than us to take away our praised courses, that are the key to our success.
The courses are not here because of a 10% budget cut that also caused 400,000 students in the California Community College system to be without enrollment.
In a survey, released by the Pearson Foundation, half of the student’s in California, were not able to add a course because classrooms were full, or jam-packed from wall to wall.
We are not going to be successful if we don’t have those courses. We might all end up with just enough education to work in a factory.
Or should we join the 300,000 waiters and waitresses with their college degrees, and if we do join them, we can together start paying back the $875 billions spent on student loans.
At the end of the day, when we write a check or deposit the money for our student loans, we might feel tiny, thinking that the student loan debt is increasing dramatically.
The only question now is can we change?
Of course.
Do we want to?
That answer is up to you.