Luna del'Corvo

Money, time, and effort almost never goes where it needs to go. As you mentioned here, one might think that lower scores would reap more funds (presumably to aid people, as it seems well needed)—but then think about how banks charge you exorbitant fees for not having enough money held in your account. You are being punished for being too poor. You are being punished for not learning in a—frankly outdated—system that doesn't work for you.

In ways, I feel like its always been like this. Here in Canada it's not too much better, actually. However, it really does seem to be getting so much worse. Even secondary education... We have a school here that was called Ontario College of Arts & Design (OCAD) and a few years back now, they changed into a "University" so they could charge more and are now known as OCADu—which, the DUMBEST. They also seem to have a bunch of "catch all" diplomas that they've recently been marketing, and truly anyone can get in no matter the skill level if they have the money. Sure, there's applications like anywhere, but.

Now, I understand that art is subjective, but I've known quite a number of people who—love them as I may—are not artists in any way, shape, or form. Yet they get in all the same and the same thing happens. They graduate, get tossed into the world utterly unprepared for the business of it all, they expect their diploma means something and it doesn't because they actually don't have any skill. Frankly, even people who aren't that good but have the willingness to learn could become something (this being true in more than just the arts) if the school system didn't keep failing them, but that's not what matters. It's the money.

I see nothing but advertisements everywhere on why you should choose this school or that school. It's all business and money and the only time they care about a student is when that student is shiny enough to make the institution look good.