CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Do you remember Belle Knox? She was a student at Duke University in 2013. And she was a part-time porn actress. One of her male classmates recognized her and outed her.
It actually made her more popular.
She said it was the best way to pay her $60,000 tuition.
And today it’s even more common for college-age women to trade on their sexuality to cover tuition. The web site quora estimates that 31-percent of undergraduate college women are sugar babies. What’s that? They trade favors with older, wealthier men. Sometimes it involves going on dates, or trading pictures or videos, to sexual favors – either in-person or on-line.
And let’s be clear, a woman who spends time with a man for money is an escort. A woman who has sex for money is a prostitute. And that so many people shrug their shoulders about it shows what a low place we’ve come to.
That’s where unrestrained college costs have led us. On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, almost one third of women offer their bodies to pay for college. Is that what woke, liberal education looks like?
There’s another twist to this. Is it moral to charge so much for tuition that a student has almost no chance of paying back their student loans through their chosen careers? Forget about fine arts and ethnic studies majors that have very limited job prospects. What about a student who wants to be a teacher? There are rural school districts in Wisconsin that pay $30,000 a year. A student who goes to a private school for four years could owe $200,000 or more. Do they have any chance of working as a teacher and paying off their loans?
Liberal colleges and liberal policies are to blame. Many schools have more administrators than facility. Controlling costs simply isn’t part of the equation. And why should they? So long as loan forgiveness is being debated, students are suckered into borrowing money on the assumption that someone else will pay for it. Taking money that you don’t intend to repay is immoral. But so is ‘flaunt it if you’ve got it’… which appears to be how many students are making ends meet.
Chris Conley.
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