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California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps
cultiv8 writes: "The Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE), a unit in the California Department of Consumer Affairs charged with licensing and regulating postsecondary education in California, is arguing that 'learn to code' bootcamps fall under its jurisdiction and are subject to regulation. In mid-January, BPPE sent cease and desist letters to Hackbright Academy, Hack Reactor, App Academy, Zipfian Academy, and others. Unless they comply, these organizations face imminent closure and a hefty $50,000 fine. A BPPE spokesperson said these organizations have two weeks to start coming into compliance."
Those sort of courses are for people who already have a job and a career, and the cost is generally paid by the employer.
The kiddie bootcamps, on the other hand, are a sort of get-rich-quick scheme, promising an amazing future where your brat can earn really big bucks. Sort of like the modeling agency scam that lures in dumb parents and says "your snotty-faced kid will be a big star, just sign here, and pay us $$$$ in fees".
Step 1 - all politicians need to be registered and certified. Letting someone practice politics unlicensed is highly dangerous.
Step 2 - monthly testing for IQ, education and sanity. If they fail any of these they get a warning by being locked in public stockades naked and the public encouraged to throw rotten fruit and veggies at them.
Step 3 - Did they learn anything? If no, go back to step 2 until they do.
Step 5 - if found corrupt or working against the people or the constitution, they forfeit all personal property and wealth immediately and are thrown in the stockades again but allow the people to now use rocks until their trial, after trial hard labor camp for 30 years.
No death penalty, they need to serve as a warning to others when you try and pass laws that go against the constitution or are for a special interest.
Special case 1 - if a special interest is found to be involved is a corporation, that corporation is to be put to death and liquidated immediately, it's board and executives all put in stockades and allow the public to do what they want to them. Then to hard labor camp with their friend.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yes, and it's tragic. California was once the place that others looked to for innovation. As a child, I remember our public schools (in the City of Los Angeles, no less) being visited often by small pods of foreigners who would sit in the back of our classroom to observe what was going on. I found out later on that these were bureaucrats and educators from all over the world, who wanted to replicate the success of California's public education system. My father attended a community college free and he didn't pay tuition to attend Cal State LA either. He wasn't the best or the brightest - he was just motivated to get an education, and back then, community colleges and the Cal State University system were free to California residents with a high-school education.
Now we've devolved into the highest-taxed state in the nation, and we hold the majority of the nation's poor within our state borders. There's more children living here in poverty (by Federal standards) than in any other state in the nation. This is what over-regulation and meddling has done to a once powerful state.