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Harry Potter:
Used to go out with a girl who started going to Uni in 1995 and is still there. What we call Professional Students down here. She reckons she'll finish in about 5 years, once they run out of courses. :P
quarterback:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 10, 2005, 05:44:42 pm ---You're talking about options that have absolutely nothing to do with this story, and more to do with someone actually paying a reasonable amount for their education in those situations.
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quarterback:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on April 10, 2005, 12:24:04 pm ---What I find depressing is the increasingly prevalent attitude that education should be regarded solely as a means of getting a better paid job. What happened to learning for learning's sake?
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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: quarterback on April 11, 2005, 12:24:07 am ---
Clearly you think what he's doing is completely wrong, right?
Clearly you think that he should be stopped, right?
Since you didn't answer any of the questions I posed in my first post, I'll ask again, Drew
(1) Do you think there should be a maximum number of classes that any one person is allowed to take at a school that is subsidized by taxpayer money? Yes or no.
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Not a maximum number of classes. A time frame, after which, you are expected to pay a larger portion of your tuition, such as what was implemented. It seems to have made the decision a little easier for him, hasn't it? Your graduate classes and going back to school years later example are poor comparisons. Beyond a reasonable time-frame, yes, there should be financial burdens he should be expected to shoulder. I don't think what he's doing is wrong, I think he's using the system as it was set up to take advantage of the more-than-generous assistance the taxpayers of this state generally have no clue about. The problem is that our school system is set up to foster this crap and there's little drawback to someone sponging off the people of my state for excessive amounts of time.
If he wants to go to school for ANOTHER twelve years, that's fine with me, but he should be footing a larger, MUCH larger, percentage of the bill than he already is. As for him helping pay taxes for his schooling, here in WI, if he can demonstrate that he's a full time student, he'll get every dime back from the state that he paid in taxes each week, and I'd bet at the federal level, the same thing happens.