I have written much that is critical of WGU, a supposedly non profit on line school that eschews faculty and nourished its admins with very high salaries and other perks. My main concern is not with the money taken in by these people but with the harm done to students getting a poor education.
A number of students have written in defense, usually with anecdotes of their own experiences. I always offer the correspondent a chance to write, uncensored, on The Ave. The latest is Lesa Isa-Zebra, a self identified graduate of WGU. She posted a heated defense of the school at DISQUS, a web site of the now failed Business Week. Her passion included talking about her own experiences including what she claims were tens of job offers (as a teacher) rustled up by WGU. She also attacked my credibility.
As usual I offered her space here, with no censorship. As is usual with these people (some of whom appear to be WGU flacks), she refused. However her response on DISQUS was so colorful, I decided to repost it here.
No one is even willing to start that conversation with you because it is stupid. It is not worth discussing. They charge each student less than nothing to attend so why do you care what they pay their instructors and mentors. Those people deserve to be paid. Go pick on the red cross and feed the world and see what their ceo’s make, drive, and look at their homes. For every dollar you donate to them the folks around the world get less than about penny of it. Go find out where the other 99 and a half cents went and leave us alone. Go pick on the movie stars and the rich who go to feed the seal dinners where they play a thousand dollars a plate so they can write their hob nobbing off on their taxes. Im not going to keep setting here replying to you. I also don’t need you saying I spoke to you first because that is mute at this point your kicking my school and it is my school not yours. You probably live in your moms basement and have nothing better to do than live on the internet trying to upset people. So let me say for all of us at WGU ask your mom to bring down your milk and cookies and you go to bed and wake up tomorrow and go get a real job and quit harrassing WGU students. We don’t need it we already work. MOM come get your brat and tuck him in I don’t care if he is 45 years old….stick him in bed and if it’s not raining tomorrow then put him out and tell him to get a job and get out of your basement. Hey I put you some gramatical errors in there in case you feel the need to put your editor cap on. 🙂