Ask An Adventurer – School Sucks
(The timing of this AAA question being answered and this week’s comic pages before it is purely coincidental, we swear)
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I feel ya, E-Merl, I feel ya…
This is why I have yet to take out any loans… and why I’m considering dropping out after I get my first degree. I just keep seeing too many signs it’s not worth it (for me).
I don’t *plan* to make my kids become electricians, plumbers, or welders… but if they like the idea, well.
i feel ya there. so far my tax return for the next few years is a tax payout…and not to me
and avatar win lol
40 or so years of assault on public education have left many in E-merl’s position. However, the strategy of “Let’s let tuition pay for assistant deans, and argue that higher education is a job training program,” rather than a process of creating the public good of an educated populace means that the system is *ripe* for leverage from students. In the university system where I teach, a student registration strike consisting of only 10% of students would literally cripple my university, and potentially destabilize the entire state’s public university system. When/if students in the US get organized a la the students in Montreal in 2012, they will shake things up for serious.
I could use this to my advantage probably wont be still could.
It’s like that for all schools in the US, or nearly. There are around one educator for every 20-30 some students. Also, schools, public, gets paid for students attending everyday, and test scores, so if students start striking going, schools are going to shut down.
(mainly due to bad management, I was at a school where they had around 3 gyms, and was building another one or two, but class rooms were packed, there wasn’t any place to put your backpack that doesn’t impair walking, and restrooms only had one toilet, and around two to three urinals, and there were only around 3-5 restrooms a student could use.
Yeah, but those sports programs are what bring in the money. Giving students a good education only costs the university money, but a new basketball court brings in increased ticket sales (and fat bonuses for management) for decades to come.
Schools are only there to make money, after all. :|
Reminds me of Doraemon’s future credit card, where you would loan money from your future self. If you spent too much, it happened just like that, any extra cash you got was automagically poof’d away to cover the debt.
Good thing he at least stayed enough to learn Summon Munchies I.
If you don’t pay up the Academia sends its toughest nerd goons after you who get ya by first getting rich off social media and then hire actual physical goons to smash your kneecaps. They learn this method in the violence delegation class.
I think this comic is making a scathing political argument.
Given what’s currently going on in the Real World… this barely qualifies as an ‘amusing slap’.
Art looks different somehow, even from the other AaAs. Kinda like Archie Comics, actually, though E-Merls’ hat is a bit big for a beanie.
Stay in school, kids. It’s cheaper in the long run.
Stay in school forever. Become a teacher, then a professor and never try to live in the real world… it will eat you alive!
Go read some of the news on Y-Combinator. Becoming a professor with tenure is becoming impossible due to lack of openings.
I really, really, really, really like this one..
Reminds me of Med School.
If colleges could do that…*brrrr**
Yup, I’m looking at income based for the next 25 years…
It looks like things are as true in Arkerra as they are here: if you want out of your loans, help from a god is probably your best bet.
good luck with that one and make sure you word it right or you may get what you ask for, literally.
Not sure about what the last panel means
What does ‘Ack’ mean and why is it close to ‘Academics’?
Ack is simply an onomatopoeia for a reaction to shock – Byron’s reacting to the purse going poof. It’s also pronounced the same way as the first syllable of ‘academics’.
Knew what ‘ack’ means, just wasn’t sure how it was close to ‘academics’, but thank you for explaining it (figured it would be something simple :P)
The way Byron re-ack-ted, it was as though he’s never seen magic or something go *POOF* before
about the alt text
Bachelor of Arts is below the Bachelor degree (just fyi)
As my A+ professor said…”The arts get ya laid, the sciences get ya paid. Choose wisely.”