tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post5954186200921915681..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: UC Students Protest a 32% Increase In FeesDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-58612544586343351752009-12-02T19:14:05.692-08:002009-12-02T19:14:05.692-08:00Your post is featured in this week's EduCarniv...Your post is featured in this week's <a href="http://uncomfortableadventures.blogspot.com/2009/12/educarnival-v2-issue-15.html" rel="nofollow">EduCarnival</a>! <br /><br />I love getting to read posts from people I'm not familiar with, so it'd be awesome if you'd put up a quick note on your blog or website linking to the carnival and encouraging your readers to submit as well.Clixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460380696875928585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-82870362312829555562009-11-30T06:24:20.264-08:002009-11-30T06:24:20.264-08:00I can see why you wouldn't want to pay for tha...I can see why you wouldn't want to pay for that scanner--but I don't want to pay for it, either. <br /><br />Then again, those costs I mentioned--hand scanner wasn't among them. Do you have a restaurant complex at school? A fancy student union? A coffee bar? How are the dorms? (Sac State is building new ones.) If students want to live an upper middle class lifestyle in college, let mommy and daddy pay for it--not me.<br /><br />I don't mind ponying up part of the cost of your education. I do mind ponying up for student luxuries.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-81173389387774308952009-11-29T23:25:01.265-08:002009-11-29T23:25:01.265-08:00Yeah, I'm sure that when Cal State LA decided ...Yeah, I'm sure that when Cal State LA decided to sink $45,000 into a biometric hand scanner for access to the school's exercise facilities, the students deserved to eat that, even though the students were pretty against it. Using a student ID to access the seemed to work out for the students. The school said it saved over the cost of printing student IDs, which I'm sure the school forgot that they'd have to print anyway. But yeah, the students should totally eat it when the school acts outside of their interests.<br /><br />I'm a student, I'm fine with paying more if I'm getting more and it's in my best interest. Paying more for school when I'm getting less out of it and schools can budget for a $45,000 biometric hand scanner that's unnecessary but they have to cut classes that are graduation requirements, I feel like it's not in my best interest, and why should I have to eat those costs?<br /><br />But if you're right and students are the problem, then that shouldn't be much longer. Schools are proactively searching ways to get students out. I, personally, would rather pay more taxes. Not just for my own education, but I'd like to think that colleges will still exist here when I have children one day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-29846038905972812992009-11-22T00:58:18.904-08:002009-11-22T00:58:18.904-08:00These fee increases are unnecessary. All that nee...These fee increases are unnecessary. All that needs to be done is for the rich to pay their fair share in taxes.libhomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com