About ten years ago or so, I was a part-time guitar teacher at an accredited music school, or so it was said to be. It was a good job, I had good students, and everything worked out well. The people I worked with were nice and I had a good boss. A year into the job and I was called in the office of my boss’s boss, who had met with her and me.
He had explained to me about fiscal quotas and all the programs in the school having to meet them each fiscal year. He told me that he had to let me go because I was becoming a detriment to the objective of the music
school meeting their financial bottom line, despite that fact that I was a good guitar teacher and that everyone liked me.
I wanted to understand why I was being fired, so he explained that making money was priority to teaching students, and that my students were learning too much and doing too well, causing them to be so good at playing guitar that they don’t feel the need to come for
lessons for more than two years. The school expects to have people come for lessons for ten years or more, and teachers with master’s degree know that. Thus, know how to recess the level of student learning and progress so that they will stay around and continue paying for more lessons. As someone with no master’s
degree, they took a chance hiring me because they had the impression that I had known how to recess lessons and not let them learn much in each lesson.
But with me teaching the students so much and them doing so well, the school was losing money. I see this now. Considering that students were paying the school over 80 dollars for a half an hour, and I was being paid 10 dollars per hour for teaching, about half
of what the other teachers were making.
Yes, they we’re losing money. I didn’t dispute this. I simply left. This really opened my eyes to corruption in business like I had never seen it before. On the downside, I was being fired from a job for the first time. On the upside, sever students stopped taking lessons there and chose to ask me to tutor them privately, and so I did.
As time went on, I started to learn about some of the technique’s corporations use to excessively suck money out of the people that they do business with, and how colleges and universities have become independent human resource centers for big companies, as well as boosters for resumes. I had started to really understand why grade school’s push
for students to go to college, no matter what they chose to do. Outside of taking up vital training needed for fields such as medicine, college really is overblown education to make a science out of jobs that would otherwise not need college.
The price for college in itself would help to show that there is too much money in the industry of continuing education and instead of a pushback on the greed involved in college tuition, people choose to dispute who should be the funding source, thus making the problem more complicated.
This is the ultimate abuse of capitalism, and this capitalistic system. For a good running economy, we need not to weaponize money, whether in earning, speeding or otherwise using it. While capitalism is on the premise that everyone should have the right to make a suitable living, we should not abuse this
economic resources. We will kill our system if we are not responsible, for socialists are all around and waiting to overrun good hardworking people
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