The Desperate Measures of Collapsing Schools.
The Desperate Measures of Collapsing Schools.
Recent examples of institutional-policy changes and their future agenda.
First, I have to thank the contributors to my podcast American Education FM for sending me information such as this. I’m only one person and I can only catch so much. Fortunately, this information and our collective analysis on the collapse of American education allows us to see between the lines and connect the dots. Ladies and gentlemen, the collapse of universities and K12 schools across America continues, but it comes with forced policy changes first in an attempt to cover an institutions tracks and keep a sinking boat afloat.
As universities continue to bleed student enrollment due to increased tuitions, cost of living, sick and dead students and faculty from the COVID bio-weapon, and much more, America’s higher education institutions are making policy moves that they’ve never made before, while attempting to gaslight attendees and the surrounding areas into believing that they’re not becoming insolvent. These policy moves are the desperate measures of a dying system.
These ‘institutions of indoctrination’ have to trick the outsiders into thinking that everything is fine, while the fact remains that the building on the inside is on fire. Frankly, I have yet to hear anyone address this matter, nor have I read it anywhere, so allow me and my contributing audience to provide some current examples.
Most recently, on Episode 530 of American Education FM, Dr. Robin McCutcheon, full economics Professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, joined me and stated that Marshall’s business school is moving to an all-online environment in perhaps the coming semester and certainly in the coming years. They’re attempting to set up their new department building for professors to give taped lectures to an empty classroom, to only have the lectures then uploaded online for students and even international students to enroll in and watch. Where this was never the case before, it’s now being done in an effort to maintain enrollment numbers and bring back revenue. It’s as if Marshall University knows that online education is the fiscally responsible way to stay afloat after killing off their customers with coercion to take a biological-weapon disguised as preventive medicine. It’s a policy move that they’re making without telling anyone the real reasons for the change in approach.
Dr. McCutcheon also stated that Marshall’s campus is visibly absent of students and many professors are teaching online, full-time, as the university has made this available to them based on personal discretion.
Next, you have Radford University in Virginia. Radford University, in a hidden scheme to make up for a lack of attendance and enrollment, is now allowing current and future students to receive free tuition next fall if their parent’s combined income is less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). WDBJ7.com interviewed the president of Radford University Bret Danilowicz, and he stated the following last week;
“This is a historic day for Radford University, as a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Danilowicz told reporters. The program will cover the tuition of Virginia residents whose families have an adjusted gross income of $100,000 or less. The school estimates more than half of the Virginia students now enrolled at Radford will qualify.
In an interview with WDBJ7, Danilowicz said a major goal is to show prospective students and their families they have an affordable pathway to a high quality education. He stated the following; “Often what they see on the website is the sticker price of the university, but they don’t see in advance the aid they’re provided either through the federal government, through a Pell Grant or through state aid, or even through the university,” he said. “So this makes it transparent up front before a student applies. If they’re accepted their tuition is covered.”
Danette Gomez Beane is Radford University’s Vice President of Enrollment Management and Strategic Communications stated; “We’re taking out some of the guesswork of what it means to attend a four-year institution, get a degree that’s going to work for you, where you can turn it around and get a job tomorrow in many of the areas that we’re known for: education, healthcare, cyber security, business,” she said. “These are folks that are desperate for talent, and we’re producing it.”
This is a blatant cover-up regarding their low enrollment and absenteeism. There is no doubt about it. The fact is, they simply want bodies on their campus. They couldn’t keep the ones that were there, and they can’t keep the ones that they still have, so this is their so-called solution. Free tuition. However, this doesn’t mean attending will be free. The university will still apply class fees to students, while having them pay for on-campus living at the same time. With an increased enrollment, the school may be able to stay afloat financially from a state-funding standpoint, but not for long.
This is a band-aid on a gushing artery.
You also have Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia as well.
Insider(s) tell me that Longwood University is now making it mandatory that ALL students (regardless of how many years they’ve been there), live in on-campus housing, and that students must fill the newly constructed high-rise dormitory on campus. This, too, is most certainly being done in an effort to charge students for living on campus and within campus housing, while attempting to keep student money on campus as well.
Now, I don’t know about you, but what incoming or current student would want to live in an on-campus dormitory for four years straight? Certainly not a clear-headed one. It doesn’t exactly sound like a selling-point for future enrollment.
Where these examples and countless others intersect, not only has to do with the permanent damage that the COVID bio-weapons have had, but also the confiscation of off-campus housing and property to accommodate the influx of illegal aliens. Yes, that’s right. Not only are universities in America collapsing financially, but they’re still in the real-estate business and they’re attempting to, in my humble opinion, usher in illegal aliens in order to give them a free place to live, while ultimately giving them a free place to go to school, potentially in the future.
While I wrote about this over a year ago on this very Substack when it came to K12 education, the university element of accommodating illegal aliens has always been in play, and this may be higher education’s perceived ‘ticket’ out of their financial crisis. By allowing for illegal aliens to attend their universities, and by doing so in off-campus housing, they can maintain their enrollment numbers, maintain state funding and gaslight the public into believing that they’re a fiscally-responsible, educational environment.
Even Dr. McCutcheon stated that Marshal university students are set to receive training on what the university is calling “bystander awareness.” It sounds to me like the university is preparing students for an influx of illegal bystanders on campus and certainly within and around the university town.
In another perfect example of the financial collapse of a degenerate K12 environment, the Loudoun County Public School system in Loudoun County, Virginia is feeling the pinch as a result of their past degeneracy, public humiliation and the cost that comes with making poor decisions.
In an article by LoudounNow.com, this school district (the same one where a girl was raped by a boy pretending to be a girl, while entering the girls bathroom to commit the crime after their degenerate bathroom policy that catered to the mentally ill), has seen their student enrollment decrease by 900 students. This has caused the district to lose four million dollars in state funding.
Chief Financial Officer Sharon Willoughby, who told the School Board on Oct. 24th, they’re expecting a significant shortfall this year. She stated the following;
“Not having 900 additional students purchasing meals is having an impact on our revenue streams as well as we are also seeing lower a la carte sales,” she said. The division was down 800 students last year.
The article goes on to say:
Cafeteria sales are the main revenue source for the school Nutrition Fund. The budget projects sales of $21.1 million this year, an increase of $3.1 million from last year. However despite this, early projections indicate an $8.9 million shortfall.
In the school operating fund, higher than normal staff vacancy rates are leading to a $32.6 million surplus. However, those same vacancies are impacting the division's self-funded health insurance program in a negative way because fewer employees are paying into it. Willoughby projected a $12.3 million shortfall in health insurance funds as a result.
She said the fund balance projection for the end of the first quarter puts the self insurance fund at $26.1 million, which is 10.4% of the division’s expenditure. She said the goal is to have 17%. She said when she presented the fiscal year 2025 preliminary fall forecast, she recommended an 8% increase to premiums at that time because the staff was seeing the trend.
Other self insurance funds include workers' compensation, which she said expenses are projected to be under budget, and the Virginia Local Disability Plan, a short term disability for employees, is expected to go over budget.
Additionally, a $9.4 million surplus is being projected in the operations and maintenance account as the cost of materials came in below projections.
Willoughby also updated the board on COVID-19 funds, noting that the division has completed 21 contract awards, totaling about $67 million, and has four active awards. That remaining $19 million is expected to be spent by the end of next year.
In summary, the Loudoun County Public School system in Loudoun County, Virginia is experiencing higher insurance rates, lowered student enrollment, more teaching vacancies, they’re spending more while having far less, and they’re sitting on 19 million dollars of COVID cash that they claim will be spent by the end of next year. What are they going to spend that money on exactly, and when that money is gone, what will they do next? You guessed it. They’ll usher in more illegal aliens in an effort to raise enrollment and generate more state funds as a result.
In another possible policy move, schools in Rio Rancho, New Mexico (the 51st-ranked State in K12 education), are proposing a new calendar system that would seek to shorten the year-long calendar schooling by shortening the summer break and making more breaks throughout the year. The district claims that doing this, if it goes into effect, would allow for learning gains, more student retention and attendance, and less student and teacher burnout.
Ironically, what they’ve actually done, is they’ve just advocated for homeschooling. Learning throughout the year while taking breaks, is how a homeschooling environment operates all of the time, without the headache of attending a K12 brick-and-mortar school.
The irony is palpable.
Ladies and gentlemen, every policy move that K12 schools and universities are making right now, and the ones they will make in the future, are due to their mindless compliance with the COVID lie, their fiscal irresponsibility, their lowered enrollment, their teaching/administrative vacancies, and their inability to learn from their past mistakes. K12 schools and universities are lowering standards, lowering enrollment requirements, lowering test requirements, changing schedules, cutting faculty and staff positions, lowering student attendance requirements and much, much more.
These institutions will never admit fault for what they’ve done. They’re led and inhabited by narcissists of the highest order, and an admission of guilt is not in their nature. In fact, for them, such an admission is downright impossible.
These are the desperate measures of a failing government system. The collapse of American education is here. Don’t let them gaslight you into thinking otherwise.
BIO: Dr. Sean M. Brooks is the host of the podcast American Education FM and the author of several books including; The Unmasking of American Schools: The Sanctioned Abuse of Americas Teachers and Students.