College Kids Sold Out By Their Own Schools. . .

to the credit card monster. Over and over and it never stops, even when they become alumni donor prospects. It will follow them forever.

It’s a sad story y’all. Seems there’s no ivy-covered campus any more, where kids can grow into real-world lives under the nurturing educator eye of their protective professors and administrators. Nope, in loco parentis is long gone, and now kids and their private education information are valuable commodities to be reeled in, signed up, sold out and shackled to eternal debt service.

And worst of all, it’s right here in my own backyard (among other colleges and universities in Florida and across the country, of course.)  Thank goodness my own alma mater isn’t implicated (yet?) but several Florida universities are in bed with the Bank of America to feed the kids to the monster on unfavorable terms — unfavorable to the kids, I mean, favorable to Big Business and Big Education!  Oops, sorry, was that redundant?

I doubt we’ve heard the last of this, considering that Congress is taking testimony on how college kids are aggressively screwed by Big Business and Education with student loan debt, too, supposedly to “help” them get that gosh-darned higher education that will secure their future earning power, doncha know.

Well, it better. Because they’re gonna need it. They’ll be up to their eyeballs in debt before they ever get off campus, and probably never know who sold them out in the first place!

Btw, in the interest of full disclosure (because I learned integrity at home, not at school?) the crusader who independently investigated this story and will be following up with more, shares a name with me and has helped homeschool our kids. Including Favorite Daughter the college student headed for this local university, who had BETTER NOT be getting her private info sold to the credit card monster in the name of her educational best interests.

It’s bad enough she keeps getting those military recruiting brochures from every imaginable branch of service . . . understand, I was an Air Force brat myself and proud of it.  My dad went to Clemson when it was still an Air Force academy, a Depression baby who never had a dime for chewing gum much less whatever kids charge on campus credit cards today, had to hitchhike to and from home in Cool Springs NC just to see his family on holidays.  So the college debt he graduated with was to the Air Force, which he honored in Korea.  But it was honorable debt, all aboveboard and honest, all agreed to, all very clear.  Think how sneaky it would’ve been to secretly set him up for that on an opt-out basis, and then to hit him with the military debt at graduation. Oh by the way son, you owe us six years in uniform . . .

So this isn’t a blanket objection to the military or business (he became a UF business professor when he got out!)  It’s a homeschooling mother’s very specific outrage at how Big Education, Big Government and Big School Sports have become indistinguishable, and ganged up on our kids.