#academic gatekeeping

As we all know, the American school system fucking sucks. They’ve already taken out loans and they work, but since FAFSA does not accurately reflect their family’s current financial status, they aren’t receiving enough financial aid to cover the remaining tuition. 

They’ve literally changed my life and I’d really appreciate it if you can donate if you’re able or reblog if you’re willing

yet i have to pay a thousand dollars to take a class on how to give speeches, lmaooooooooooo, and theres no way to test out of it, you either have the course or you dont. 

i’m literally on the speech and debate team, i was the captain of my old team, and that’s not qualification enough, 

so i have to sit in a class full of 18 year olds who can’t give speeches and waste my time and money because this school is intentionally obtuse when it comes to their students abilities.

or they can’t travel to them, or they wouldn’t be able to survive the vacations because theyd have no where to stay or eat, and so on the list goes on forever.

when you’re constantly expected to already know, or understand instantly, less you be considered one of those “less intelligent” types, you’re not going to get as detailed information as you may need

so if you don’t understand it instantly, or you don’t already know the only apparent options become:

let them know you’re not as smart as the others who are also pretending to understand the subject matter or ... do not learn this subject matter and never grow from this point on this subject matter.

the fact that it’s so unacceptable to ask people for help in understanding things is damaging to ... you know ... actually understanding things.

like for people who profess care for knowledge acquisition they sure do a good fucking job at stopping people from learning. 

A of all I don’t fucking give a shit, especially when it’s a state university that receives taxes.