Thread regarding Zenith Education Group layoffs

Career Education is a dying industry!!

Career Education, regardless if the company is for-profit, non-profit, or not-for-profit, is a dying industry. Most of the kind of career education can be provided by publicly support community colleges or junior colleges. Their cost structure is much lower. This is an important factor because most if not all of the careers don't offer the kind of salary that CCi and Zenith "promise" to prospective students.

In addition, with the trend to raise the minimum wage to $15.00/hour will actually decrease the job opportunities in most of the careers that Zenith currently provides. Just wait and see how many McDonald's employees are still working for them in a year. Employers are not stupid - 2 employees at $8.00/hour = 1 employee at $15.00/hour. Other calculations can be made using employees at reduced hours.

Ask yourself - why aren't the enrollment increasing?? Answer: limited job opportunities and lower education costs elsewhere. Just think about all of the products and companies that don't exist any longer because the market for them is gone or very limited today. Zenith won't die immediately, but if you just started at Zenith and think that this is a place to build a career - THINK AGAIN!!

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There is not a need for career and tech schools like Everest. Community colleges offer higher quality career and tech programs at a lower cost for students who need them. The only students who sign up at for-profit "colleges" just don't know any better and are being taken advantage of by greedy SOBs like Hawn.

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Post ID: @5npr+GMr4otc

Not everyone should go to college. intelligence is a bell curve, and there's a lot of stupid people. It is just simple science. Those make up too large a segment of for profit school students, the market should adjust. we need to stop paying welfare to these students and then expecting them to pay it back. it just another wealth distribution that will finish when a future liberal government forgives the debt. There should not be so many of the for profit schools, just a few need exist. We need to teach many a trade, not waste time on an academic education.

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Post ID: @4vrs+GMr4otc

Mary, it is remarkably consistent that when people such as yourself cannot debate the substance of an argument, you will resort to condemning the messenger. I have found that most ZEG "Kool-Aid" drinkers resort to such modus operandi (look it up!!). I suspect that you are going through life blaming others for your own failures.

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Post ID: @2uot+GMr4otc

Legendary, 1lhk! You really are brilliant. I'm here to tell you that klazomaniacal rants are amusing only because you think so highly of yourself. After all, you can spell dumb - but not numb. Hmmm. One can only conclude that you are a wanking yaldson hanging around McDonalds. Why? Because you aspire to date the employees but would settle for a free happy meal. Good luck in the future.

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Post ID: @2bgu+GMr4otc

Mary Poppins, so you want a Doctoral dissertation on the subject? The people left at ZEG wouldn't understand. I had to dumb it down for all the "Kool-Aid" drinkers that think there is a future in the industry.

I'm here to encourage those ZEG employees that don't have the mind-numming "Kool-Aid" running through their veins to find a future in another industry.

BTW, in my state the minimum wage is $8.00/hour. Therefore, most employers if forced to pay $15.00/hour for an employee will only retain one, not two employees. This is advanced doctoral mathematics, which you obviously don't comprehend. In addition, the unintended consequences (hope you understand what this means) of a $15.00/hour minimum wage will be lower overall labor expenses for employers.

This posting was not intended for you Mary, go back to flipping your burgers at McDonald's while you still have a job there. You are the type of simplistic thinker that is incapable of understanding that 1 + 1 does not always equal 2.

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Post ID: @1lhk+GMr4otc

It's been dying for 6 years. High school counselors have been discouraging students from entering a career school for the last 10 years and pushing students towards 4 year colleges.

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Post ID: @slw+GMr4otc

Preach Brother Preach !!!

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Post ID: @wbo+GMr4otc

Yeah, what hzh said.

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Post ID: @cet+GMr4otc

Why are you here? Your opinion is superficially informed, and you need to take a career college math course. Spit spot, off you go then.

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