06-19-2012, 06:42 AM
To be honest I really don't care what form of recognitin a school has or doesn't have. If RA is what someone wants, fine, but don't then turn around with a bottom feeder RA school and start doing the, "I'm better than you because........mine is Barely RA. By the way, of course, barely RA ain't Harvard, despite what Bear may say.
Why some people are just dying to attack some retired businessman because he wanted a degree at the end of his work career is beyond me, or why it is necessary to say a man in private business needs to spend 6 months dealing with Excelsior rather than a State Approved school is another mystery. Bear properly realized that most of his would-be customers had no interest in spending 4 years taking online courses leading to BA's from Penn. State or some other big state college. Let's face it the new trend is towards doing the same level and type of work as is required at some large brick and mortar residence college. Since it is done online it may take 4-6 years to finish the degree. This is not what Bear found and exploited. As for me the state licensed approach was just fine, the price-time-quality, it worked for me. If I'm to be required to do everything the same as a residence school it would be just as well to go there.
Another fact Bear has dropped is life experience. He was co-founder of schools and also had an interest/stock/ in others. All had the same theme. If you already knew it there was no reason to do it over again. Seems Bear has left that little part of history behind. It was the life experience that allowed one to move quickly through a degree program. Try asking one of those big RA colleges to let you slide through in a year or less. Ok, no one is saying all the state schools were great, but, they were something, sometimes good, sometimes fair, and sometimes not that good, but, they were what was wanted and Bear sold the hell out of them.
So, what do we have? People buying what they were told was adequate for most purposes, and that was and is correct. They are not frauds, not fools, and not trying to fool the world, just people who wanted legal degrees for limited reasons and for modest goals. They deserve better than what Bear is saying about them and their choices.
Hell he took their money (schools-and the guides). He should at least have the backbone to stand by his words. He either lied or told the truth. He can't claim the water is too hot and too cold all at the same time.
Why some people are just dying to attack some retired businessman because he wanted a degree at the end of his work career is beyond me, or why it is necessary to say a man in private business needs to spend 6 months dealing with Excelsior rather than a State Approved school is another mystery. Bear properly realized that most of his would-be customers had no interest in spending 4 years taking online courses leading to BA's from Penn. State or some other big state college. Let's face it the new trend is towards doing the same level and type of work as is required at some large brick and mortar residence college. Since it is done online it may take 4-6 years to finish the degree. This is not what Bear found and exploited. As for me the state licensed approach was just fine, the price-time-quality, it worked for me. If I'm to be required to do everything the same as a residence school it would be just as well to go there.
Another fact Bear has dropped is life experience. He was co-founder of schools and also had an interest/stock/ in others. All had the same theme. If you already knew it there was no reason to do it over again. Seems Bear has left that little part of history behind. It was the life experience that allowed one to move quickly through a degree program. Try asking one of those big RA colleges to let you slide through in a year or less. Ok, no one is saying all the state schools were great, but, they were something, sometimes good, sometimes fair, and sometimes not that good, but, they were what was wanted and Bear sold the hell out of them.
So, what do we have? People buying what they were told was adequate for most purposes, and that was and is correct. They are not frauds, not fools, and not trying to fool the world, just people who wanted legal degrees for limited reasons and for modest goals. They deserve better than what Bear is saying about them and their choices.
Hell he took their money (schools-and the guides). He should at least have the backbone to stand by his words. He either lied or told the truth. He can't claim the water is too hot and too cold all at the same time.