Tortuous Nonsense

In a time where roughly one out of ten people in the United States actively seeking work don’t have it the ridiculous lawsuit has taken a new form.  If you have failed to find employment three months after graduating college this year, bringing a lawsuit against your alma mater is not likely to help with the job search.  Without having some form of employment lined up from a previous internship with a company, three months isn’t a time frame in which it would be abnormal to be still looking for a job in a better economy.  Even six months wouldn’t be that unusual.  A lot of schools even advertise their job placement rates based on how many graduates find work in their field within two years of graduation.  Receiving an education is only one part of getting ready for a particular career, and applying for jobs is only part of getting a job.  The other part is being the best applicant to fill a particular opening, provided that there is an opening to fill.  With less jobs in the economy there is a much larger pool of candidates to compete with for the few available.  I don’t know of a single school that offers a tuition refund based on increased competition for jobs due to a down economy or rising unemployment.  The way endowments drop for most schools during an economic slowdown I don’t imagine many schools would be in a position to honor such guarantees even if they were offered.  The problem with the graduate’s complaint is an assumption of a specific failing on the part of their school while the problem is a larger failing of many factors outside of influence of the school.