It has recently been brought to my attention that the new hours by arrangement system for English classes is nothing more than a shameless grope for currency. Skyline students now have to pay $26 per unit and anyone taking an English class has to do these hours by arrangement-16 hours of them.

But just whose arrangement is this? The truth is it’s the government. These shameless politicians have done nothing but rob us and now they have found a way to totally destroy student morale. Lucky us. Most students have to juggle school and work but now hours by arrangement added in to this hectic mix. Now we have students staying up later at night to complete schoolwork and not getting enough sleep, there by causing students to be distracted in the next class or just not going. Instead of encouraging us to go to school they are giving more reasons not to.

The government doesn’t care-they get our money no matter what. Doesn’t seem this seem like the ultimate segregation? Students that could barley afford school and get enough hours at work have to deal with this now and English is a requirement.

So, the richer the student, the more chance they have for a successful life? Backward, isn’t it? Now every student below a certain budget is automatically incapable of completing general education. What happens when the middle-class students cannot pay for community collage? We get a nation of uneducated people.

I’ve heard claims that hours by arrangement is good for students and that it is a good way to get students the help that they need and get them more involved in their classes. Now, it may not be known but if you don’t complete these hours the teacher is unable to pass you. So, if you were going to get an A+ but you only did for example eleven hours the teacher must fail you. This, however, doesn’t do any thing to help you if you were going to get an F in the class. Completing the hours will not change that at all.

The hours are only negative, nothing about them makes sense. The lies they tell us is we want to encourage students to get the help they need. Well, when it is mandatory is not encouragement, it’s dictating. The tutors may be useful but it’s not going to change that the students forced to be there won’t pay as much attention or watch the tutors, they’ll just be watching the clock.

So what does it achieve? All it does is make students spend more time in school and give the government more dollars. We as students are getting triple taxed: taxed in time, taxed in bills, and taxed at work. We as students have to find time for homework, school, and evidently any thing the wonderful people in charge think will get them more of what we all want, and that is greed.