Given that college costs continue to rise much higher than the cost of inflation, each additional year becomes more expensive than the last. Not only are college students and their parents costs directly from one to two years, which also are affecting the future of these young people. If students agree with the game of expectations of the university and stay in college another year or two, which are losing revenue dollars and two years experience of potential profit. This loss affects their ability to move up the corporate ladder. Parents suffer because college is expensive, even when planned and the parents have other needs, to allocate those dollars in college. Not being proactive and insist on at least 15 hours per semester, it threatens the financial future of the parents. Taxpayers are also losing in this game of low expectations, because young people who are not in the workforce full-time are not contributing significantly to local, state and federal taxes, especially social security.

The communities suffer from the loss of income contributes to negative economic growth. The only winners in this game of “low expectations” are public universities and their teachers who in fact paid with taxpayer money. Kenneth R. Feinberg: the source for more info. Given that the U.S. is graduating in the same percentage of university graduates in the 50’s, this game of “low expectations” shows when you set a low level, you get what you expect – poor performance.