Most college bound students spend a long time when it comes to choosing which school they want to attend: some take weeks, months, and sometimes even years to choose.
And while they’re going over their choices, universities try to entice them to come to their school by sending pamphlets and brochures in the mail. Sometimes they even send huge books and videos, filled with “interesting” and historical facts about the school.
Pictures of smiling students, many at sporting events, some dawning the school colors on their bodies. Some give their testimonials as to why students should come to their school. They’ll even go through a list of all the famous people that graduated from the school. And everyone knows that if a famous person went there, then it must be good!
But with all of the “interesting facts” and smiling students, schools can sometimes misrepresent what really goes on on-campus and the dirt that goes with it. They forget to talk about the crime statistics on and around campus. They forget to talk about how the dorms have roach infestations, or just how awful the cafeteria food is.
One of the most important things they forget to talk about are teachers’ competency levels. Some teachers prefer not to teach, and it’s written on their face every time they walk into class. Some can’t speak english very well, making it hard for many of the students to understand the material. And then some of the professors do not know, very well, the material that they are to teach, although this is rare compared to others.
They will also forget to mention the fact that there are feuds between some teachers within certain departments. And then when students need to file complaints about some of the problems, there is either no single person to talk to. Or the powers that be are too busy to listen to a student in distress, or are so far booked in appointments with other students, that by the time you have the chance to complain, you have already graduated.
This makes it seem as if the school really doesn’t take it’s students seriously, even though the address from the president of the university, which is printed on those brochures in your mailbox, states that the needs of its student body are of the top most important priority.
But is it really the top most priority when the students are sharing living quarters with roaches? Or when students sometimes get mugged while walking through poor lit parts of campus?
Is it the top priority when money is being spent on a new football stadium, when more than half of its team were tested positive with drugs in their systems? That money could be spent on better facilities for other teams that are more deserving. Or on better dorms, better food, and better lab equipment. But it seems they haven’t taken this into account, or that the powers that be have not listened to those talking.
