The Scam Starts Early

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The school scam starts young; even 3 month year old babies are being scammed. Well, their parents are. YourCan Read is the preferred scam for the drooling crowd.

The ads claimed that any preschooler could learn to read before kindergarten if you buy their flash cards and DVDs. But wait, could it all be bullshit a scam? Can babies really learn to read at 3 months? The experts all say no.

10 experts who were all of the same basic opinion: Young children can be made to recognize or memorize words, but the brains of infants and toddlers are just not developed enough to actually learn to read at the level the way the enticing television ads claim they can.

Oh, my, so they were manipulating facts to get parents to buy an educational product that doesn’t work? Where have I heard that before? Oh right, that’s what the law schools do! Nice to see there is some consistency in American education.

The entire school scam in a nutshell:

Buy this crap and learn to read before you can crawl, get into the right preschool, which gets you into the right kindergarten, into the right grade school, an expensive private high school, then drop $200,000 on a worthless bachelor’s degree, and if you’re really lucky, get into a law school and drop another $150,000, to wind up unemployed and $350,000 in debt.

I think it’s misleading. I think it’s false, and I think it raises false expectations, said Dr. Karen Hopkins, a developmental pediatrician at New York University’s Langone Medical Center

Misleading, false information, raises false expectations. That’s the way to get students to enroll, from birth to graduate school. False is the business model all schools follow.

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Another Reason To Close The Doors

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As if we needed another reason to shut TTTTTouro down. One of its ’09 grads, Joseph Rakofsky, “astonished” a judge with his poor performance in and out of court.

A mistrial was declared when a Washington, D.C. judge said that the TTTT grad didn’t have a good grasp of legal procedures. Could this be why TTTouro decided earlier this year to cut enrollment by a whopping 10 students? So there could be more one on one time with the professors? Oh, no, right, it was because the school thought it was the “ethical” thing to do. And what wonderful ethics they are teaching the students:

The judge declared a mistrial after reviewing a court filing in which an investigator had claimed Rakofsky fired him for refusing to carry out the lawyer’s emailed suggestion to “trick” a witness, the story says. Rakofsky’s suggestion allegedly read: “Thank you for your help. Please trick the old lady to say that she did not see the shooting or provide information to the lawyers about the shooting.”

The question that came to my mind was: Why would any lawyer with less than two years experience think that they could first chair a murder trial? Is it the same delusional thinking that led this idiot to drop $100,000 on a crap school like Touro?

Could someone just slam the seats on all of these toilets? Save the students money, save the taxpayers money, and save the lives of the clients that they will ruin with their lack of knowledge and skills.

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Distraction From Debt

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I just saw a great film, The Lincoln Lawyer. I actually forgot about all of my problems for the two hours or so I was in the movie theatre. It was like being on vacation, fabulous!

And I have a new crush. Clooney is out, Matthew McConaughey is the man. Gorgeous eye candy, and the man can act. This movie about a criminal defense attorney has a ton of twists that will keep your minds off Sallie Mae and her buddies for the whole time. And no, it does not glorify the legal profession, far from it.

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Tax The Rich

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I found a great article about the potential for a revolution against the rich. The writer isn’t exactly succinct but if you stay with it he makes some excellent points, most notably that the rich need to be taxed now or face revolution later. He notes that Arab leaders weren’t expecting a revolution:

Then, suddenly, out of the blue, a new “educated, unemployed and frustrated” generation turned on them, is now rebelling, demanding their share of economic benefits, opportunities, triggering revolutions, seeking retribution.

Worldwide, youth unemployment is fueling the revolution. In a New York Times column, Matthew Klein, a 24-year-old Council on Foreign Relations researcher, draws a parallel between the 25% unemployment among Egypt’s young revolutionaries and the 21% for young American workers: “The young will bear the brunt of the pain” as governments rebalance budgets. Taxes on workers will be raised and spending on education will be cut while mortgage subsidies and entitlements for the elderly are untouchable,” as will tax cuts for the rich. Opportunities lost. “How much longer until the rest of the rich world” explodes like Egypt?

Good question. How much longer until students finally get tired of having their lives mortgaged so that Al Lord and greedy deans can live large off them? How much longer until students realize they cannot have families, homes or futures because their law school dean likes living in a mansion?

How much longer until we take to the streets and start riots until the government stops allowing banks to abuse and take advantage of students, and stops allowing them to conduct business in ways that is illegal for all other types of loans and credit? How much longer?

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