Hell-yeah!

Check it out--recent college graduate Trina Thompson is suing her alma mater for $72,000--the full cost of her tuition and then some--because she can't find a job.

I'm sure this sounds nutty to anyone who hasn't been to college recently, and I've never been pitched by this specific college (Munroe College in New York where Thompson got a degree in business administration), but I visited plenty of colleges with my daughter and, for real--every school we went promised work.

I still owe nearly $100,000 for my own higher education, but the colleges I went to--Mills and U.C. Berkeley--never promised me work. They touted education for education's sake. They suggested that degrees would help me find meaningful work, but the admissions folks didn't come anywhere near promising it.

That was more than 15 years ago.

Now, tuitions are off the map.

And every school I visited with my daughter (who started college two years ago) all but promised her a job upon graduation. They even specified salaries. THEY SPECIFIED SALARIES. And that's how they justified their $25,000+ annual tuitions.

And my kid was looking at art schools.

I can only imagine the pitch you get from business schools.

It's about time someone bring it back home. Yep. Sue them. Where is the job, o-expensive-alma-mater?

If education is valuable in its own right, which I think it is, let's start advertising it as such. And let's start charging the amount of money that it's worth (something relative to a professor's salaries, say?)

It's repulsive that schools charge a $25,000+ tuition, pay their professors the equivalent of one or two students' tuition, lie to kids about their futures, and then shrug it all off.

In the mean time, go Trina Thompson. Folks are going to give you a hard time. But I totally feel you.