Can You Here me Now

Can You Here me Now?

I don’t know what everyone finds so alarming about wanting to complain about a high dollar purchase amount for our education at an accredited institution (it costs around $20,000 - $30,000 to just attend a community college) when the service really sucks and you are not getting what you paid for. Society as a whole has recognized and anticipated these types of problems by addressing them responsibly. Some examples would be the protections offered buyers of autos, homes, loans, credit, land, etc. Shouldn’t the students also be protected from one of the oldest and biggest CONS being circulated today? A degree from PCC amounts to a worthless piece of paper when it is all said and done.

I have found the following words of wisdom to be most accurately applied to this situation:
Why is it impossible for people ---- even the very bright ---- to not make mistakes?

When we are born, we know virtually nothing. To learn anything, we must explore new territory. So, unless we behave like passive receivers of information (like a computer being programmed) or have perfect luck and guess right every time, we will make mistakes. This activity expands when we go to school and retracts after we leave, in the absence of motivation or encouragement.

But in some people, especially those who are inquisitive and bright, the process continues throughout life. They never stop learning ---- and making mistakes. Others try to avoid error by staying in familiar territory. But life is so short, and the world of learning so vast, that I feel safe in stating that if you do not make mistakes, you don’t know much.

By Marilyn vos Savant
Parade, the Oregonian, Sunday, July 24, 2005

PCC fits the part perfectly of staying in familiar territory, except they do so to continue to collect revenues for the college. They have never admitted making any mistakes, let alone offering any type of an apology for the harm they have caused students. The PCC school administration revolves around secrecy! SECRECY, being an instrument of conspiracy, should never be the system employed by a regular community college administration.

I am in the CIS program and it has turned out to be quite a dysfunctional mess. The CSET program is in worst shape. It was discontinued winter term, brought back spring term, and then discontinued again. Those students were referred by PCC to OIT to continue their studies there for a price increase, with the understanding that PCC would make up the difference. I still have been unable to find out who brokered that money deal at the student’s expense, of course.