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Licence them fine! Don't require them to go to school. The schools are a rip-off. I had a girlfriend who went, and she was charged $15,000 (They didn't even

Licence them fine! Don't require them to go to school. The schools are a rip-off. I had a girlfriend who went, and she was charged $15,000 (They didn't even teach her the dangers of hair straightening products. We had to learn this information on our own.) So many currently licensed professions should remove the school requirement. If you can pass a Hard state test, why not issue a licence? Of the top of my head get rid of the education requirement for contractors, realtors(get rid of this profession all together, never understood the need for them.). In California, under certain circumstances you can sit for the bar exam without going to school. I always felt if you can pass the bar, especially a hard exam, like CA, NY, why not let the person practice? Why make them go to joke non-ABA approved schools, and then take the test? Or, waste money in ABA approved law schools? Especially these days, when we have the Internet?

ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
Presumably because passing the bar is necessary but not entirely sufficient to being a decent lawyer. I hear what you are saying, with the ridiculous debt that people go into for law school (an increasingly dubious proposition unless you can go to a top flight school). But even being able to take the Bar exam (in CA) without going to law school requires several years of on the job "reading" with an actual lawyer.
Spooky23 11y ago
Your girlfirend's experience is yet another example of deregulation and embrace the "free market" run amok. For profit career schools weren't previously eligible for federal student loans -- and were cheap. Now you have largely unaccredited, for profit institutions sopping up taxpayer guaranteed loans and ripping people off.
dcosson 11y ago
With contractors at least you could make the argument that there's safety at stake if they don't know what they're doing (e.g. your cabinets fall on you). I totally agree about realtors though. It's such a tautology - they're "necessary" because they have access to private information, but that information could just as easily be public if the system worked a little differently.

ZanyProgrammer 11y ago

Presumably because passing the bar is necessary but not entirely sufficient to being a decent lawyer. I hear what you are saying, with the ridiculous debt that people go into for law school (an increasingly dubious proposition unless you can go to a top flight school). But even being able to take the Bar exam (in CA) without going to law school requires several years of on the job "reading" with an actual lawyer.

Spooky23 11y ago

Your girlfirend's experience is yet another example of deregulation and embrace the "free market" run amok. For profit career schools weren't previously eligible for federal student loans -- and were cheap. Now you have largely unaccredited, for profit institutions sopping up taxpayer guaranteed loans and ripping people off.

dcosson 11y ago

With contractors at least you could make the argument that there's safety at stake if they don't know what they're doing (e.g. your cabinets fall on you). I totally agree about realtors though. It's such a tautology - they're "necessary" because they have access to private information, but that information could just as easily be public if the system worked a little differently.