What’s a scam that’s so normalised that we don’t realize it’s a scam anymore?

@robertsnj Universities are spending a lot of money recruiting students. Things were so much different when I retired than 25 years before when I first started working there. They started adding on mandatory classes for freshman to take. And added so many types of fees. Started taking a percentage for their cut of student scholarships and grants. And set up foundations for people to donate to the university for various projects including landscaping, benches, statues etc. They wanted more of those things to pretty up the campus so visiting potential students and their parents would be so impressed. They had to hire a lot more landscapers in order to keep everything planted, watered, weeded and maintained.

@cherokeepatti i got a degree so so long ago--i am just out of the loop---but i see how expensive it is these days to go to college.

@robertsnj It’s ridiculously expensive. Some of my generation could live with their parents during college to save on housing & cafeteria expensive that are so much $$$. That way they didn’t have to get over their heads with student loans. they even tried to make freshmen that live within commuting distances to stay in dorms & buy a meal plan. Two mothers protested out on the campus while the president of the university went on vacation. It got the attention of a local TV station who broadcast the story. That bit of public scrutiny and some phone calls that followed caused the president to reverse that rule.