Backlash Against For-Profit Schools

For profit schools are taking a public relations beating these days.?? With an education bubble that is inflating beyond control, for profit schools have become public enemy number one.?? Widespread shaky practices and reckless profiteerin

g have put these institutions in the crosshairs.?? But is it warranted??? Are these schools really the root of all of education's evil and sins??? Or are they merely just benefiting from an overall system that is in need of reform?

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First, it must be acknowledged that much of the criticism against for-profit schools is warranted.?? There are numerous incidents of representatives from these institutions using their positions to push iffy students into enrolling and taking out student loans using dubious information and false promises.?? These representatives are typically paid on commission based upon enrollments.?? As such, their goal is often to get students to enroll and stay in school just long enough for the financial aid agreement to go into place and the checks to clear.?? At that point, they receive their commissions and the students begin to rack up (what eventually will become) a rather large debt.?? This does not even take into account that many of the students who graduate from these institutions will do so with near worthless degrees that do not make them any more hirable than they were beforehand.