[troupe]

I understand that and if someone took 4 years to get a 2-year degree, maybe it would make sense. Keep in mind somehow she had enough resources (loans, financial aid, etc.) she should have been able to complete three 2-year associates degrees from scratch. Even if she was feeling her way toward a major, took some classes that she didn't end up needing, and had to take some remedial classes, there is no way someone who was trying (and it sounds like she is) shouldn't have been able to graduate in 6 years. The article said she talked to an advisor and implies she was trying to follow the advice she was given. If that is the case, this really should be considered educational malpractice on the part of the college.

[bphogan]

That's her side of the story. Which I'm not saying is wrong. But, again, it's awful hard to advise people who don't have any direction.

I also didn't notice if she went full time or not. I had many students who took 4 years to get a single degree, because they only took 3-5 credits a term. Our program was 68 credits. They worked 40 hours a week.

I had young adults in my class who would attend every 8AM class - never missed a day. But they never turned in work. I asked a few of them why. Same story: "If I'm going to school, my parents stop harassing me." Other students didn't know what they wanted to do, but being in school deferred student loan payments, so they just kept enrolling on purpose, kicking a can down the road.

There are a lot of young people who do not know what they want to do in life. Heck, there are older folks like me who still don't.

I miss the hell out of teaching, but I don't miss seeing students go into massive debt aimlessly floundering their way through school. And I don't like that colleges take advantage of that fact either.