May I have an angry consevative moment?
I feel sick to my stomach. And that is saying a lot. I mean, I’ve seen several people’s share of stomach turning stuff.
However, I had a moment today, while in class, that made me so violently angry that it was all I could do not to beat a few choice people over the head.
I am very excited about education. I think that it’s the bees knees, you might say. I decided to go back to school because I felt like I finally had realized it’s value and was ready to make the most out of it. So I did. I started attending community college with a plan to transfer to a university for a degree in biochemistry. I, unlike the vast majority of my classmates, do not at this point in my life have the option of obtaining federally subsidized student loans and attending school as my only vocation. I have to continue to work 72 hours a week so that I can continue to support my fiancee and myself. I often have to go to school on Monday just a few hours after I have left work with 8 or so hours of sleep over the last three days combined. Then I attend classes with students, the majority of which who are either being supported 100% by their parents or have obtained enough financial support from student loans to make ends meet so that they do not have to do anything at all besides go to school.
My quibble is not with the fact that these people are able to go to school for free (for now at least,) my problem is that these people tend to be complaining pieces of pooh who can hardly stand to spend 5 minutes outside of class bringing their grade up to a C.
This wouldn’t bother me at all except that I am in some small way enabling this behavior by paying (a disproportionately large amount of) taxes. And while I know that of the taxes that I pay, very little of it goes to these idiots. It disgusts me to think that any of my money goes to support these people.
In my opinion, if you are in school your job is to learn everything that you possibly can about the subject that you are studying. Good grades are absolutely within the reach of the most non-intellectual people out there with only moderate effort. Please stop wasting my money!
