Candidate says what was considered higher education 100 years ago, is
basic education in today’s global environment.
Press Release
For Immediate Release
April 25, 2012
For more Information contact Paul Barrow:
paul@anisarebellion.com
Today,
presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah in response to the ongoing debate on
student loan interest rates, said that not only should young people not be burdened
with debt in order to get an education, American students should receive 16 and
not only 12 years of free public education. “US policy makers are still living in the past
and not only do they refuse to acknowledge that we are way behind other countries
in respect to educating our young people. What we are asking our students and
families to pay for in respect to higher education is a rip off. What our
students are being taught in our institutions of higher education, is what
students in other parts of the world are being taught for free and as part of
their basic education programs. Failure in our elementary schools and high
schools means that much of what our colleges and universities are teaching is
remedial and below the standard of what is considered in the global educational
environment a “higher education.”
The candidate
suggested that the way to resolve this problem is to restructure our system of
education. “Not only should our students and families not be burdened with debt
to pay for inadequate education,” she said, “we should not be asking students
and families to pay for our policy failures. Our students graduate from college
and they cannot find jobs in the US, and cannot any longer compete with graduates
from other parts of the world. Our employers are asking for immigration laws
that accommodate more graduates and professionals from foreign countries where
young people are receiving higher education and they are rejecting our
graduates because they cannot compete.”
Abd el
Fattah concluded saying, “We owe it to American students and families to offer
16 rather than 12 years of free public education. We need our undergraduate universities
and institutions of higher learning to be government funded, tuition lowered
and curriculum improved. If we truly believe that education is part of an
improved economic future for our country, we need more emphasis on investment in
our students and less on profits for banks.
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