A Consumer-Happy Crowd

            When I walked into my classroom at Louisiana State University, I noticed something so different than before. In high school we were taught to work for our grades, and teachers would not change a grade no matter how much you begged them. Even though I went to a private, all girls, Catholic high school, I never felt I was a customer of any sort. In college, especially at a university as big as LSU, you do not learn to take notes better, or study harder, but you do learn to make up stories or excuses of why you do not deserve the grade you received. I felt like I was in a meat market, where people were bargaining the best price for the largest slab of meat.
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             What makes schools this way today? It is the society in which we live in, a consumer-happy world, where the "customer is always right!" Students are simply customers to an institution that grants them whatever degree they wish to earn. Sometimes I also get the feeling I'm at an all-inclusive resort, where the amenities are endless. It starts with the images of Recreation center, pools, and the most famous food chain servers in America: McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Subway, and Chick Fil-A, that fill the brochures that are sent throughout America to high school students. I mean who would not want to live on campus now? We have everything, why settle for anything else? This is the beginning of the new cycle of college life, that allows students to feel as consumers in the university market. .
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             Once the students pay for the huge amounts of money for tuition, books, and room and board, they get the sense that it is their money being put into the school system, and basically, it is. I mean can you blame us for having the feeling that we are the ones who should get the best they can get for their money? No, you can only blame society. It is society that has molded us into a lazy generation, and that teaches us not get "screwed-over" when purchasing something.