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Starting at Columbia University and spreading throughout elite universities, pro-Hamas protesters have occupied campuses, built tent cities and disrupted normal school operations. To make matters worse, they targeted Jewish students with threats of violence, organized human chains to remove “Zionists” from public spaces, and sent a Jewish student to the hospital who had been stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag. is.
They are not peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. They are spoiled, entitled children who cosplay as revolutionaries while hoping that hard-working taxpayers will foot the bill. And this revolutionary fantasy is being promoted by pampered and entitled universities that are also flush with taxpayer cash.
While we may have thought of universities as places where students could take classes, study, and prepare for productive lives as responsible citizens, this is not the case at today’s elite universities. The average college student spends less than three hours per day on classes and studying.
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When researchers administered standardized tests to college students at the beginning of college and at the end of their sophomore year, they found that “a significant proportion of students made significant gains in a variety of skills, including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing.” It turned out that there was no indication. . ”
Protesters demonstrate near Columbia University on February 2, 2024 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
If most college students don’t study and learn very little, what are they doing with their time? A growing number of them are wearing keffiyehs and calling for the destruction of Israel and America.
The same people the Biden administration believes are overburdened by having to repay loans they used to pay for college tuition who gather to chant genocidal slogans. It’s the people. Biden proposed nearly $1 trillion (T!) in student loan “debt cancellation” that would cost every man, woman, and child in this country about $3,000.
If students knew that they had to repay the loans they took out to pay for their college tuition, they would be more likely to study than attend meetings, rather than pass that burden onto their hard-working fellow citizens. or focus their energy on learning useful skills. . People tend to be more irresponsible in their decisions when they can escape the consequences of their decisions by having others bear the costs.
The same goes for universities. Because they receive so much money from taxpayers, they act irresponsibly by allowing their organizations to be taken over by extremist mobs.
For example, Columbia University receives nearly $500 million in taxpayer funding each year for federal research grant expenses. It’s not the money they receive for doing research. That’s how much Columbia can pay for the building in which it conducts its research.
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Never mind that Columbia already has over $14 billion in endowments to pay for all the buildings it needs. And all of this is paid for on top of the money that schools make by overcharging tuition fees and allowing students to take out subsidized loans that taxpayers may have to “forgive”. It has become.
The truth is that higher education, with all its irresponsible behavior, is a house in the sand built with taxpayer money. If the government cuts that funding flow even a little bit, higher education as it currently operates will collapse.
But that’s exactly what we need to happen. Universities need to be reminded that Americans are living on their hard-earned paychecks, and if they want to continue receiving that funding, they should serve a solid public purpose.
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Its public purpose is to pass on skills and culture to future generations, enabling them to become productive and responsible citizens. It’s not because they act like they’re revolutionaries destroying the source of wealth that pays their living.
If some students have father issues and need to resolve them, they should consult a therapist and resolve them at their own expense instead of destroying the higher education system.
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