The wealth in Commonwealth
Dec 14, 2009 Edumacallit, Gelt, Politics and Poker
If America — if the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — need anything right this very minute, it’s what? Above the Law answers:
“A public law program will fill a conspicuous gap in the Commonwealth’s public higher education curriculum,” said UMass president Jack Wilson. “It will give our students the public law option that exists in 44 other states… . This is about students and about educational opportunity. It is not about which private law school may face more competition.”
Oh please. This is not about the students. And it’s certainly not about educational opportunity — unless by “opportunity” you mean the invitation to saddle yourself with tens of thousands of dollars of debt in exchange for a degree from an unaccredited law school in the midst of the worst market for legal jobs anybody can remember.
We all know what this is about: money. Lenders have it, the state wants it, the financial future of citizens of the Commonwealth be damned.
Right, mainly. I mean, no one is making these people go to law school. It’s not as if there already enough dummies out there with pigskins, and even we geniuses are barely getting by.
Still, though, the crass cynicism is breathtaking, no?
