OPINION: Imagine this: It’s the end of the semester and my professor gets in front of the class room and says, "Alright everyone, due to time constraints and the fact that we only covered up to chapter 10, the final will only be on those chapters." My response, only in my mind of course, was “Due to lack of money constraints I can only pay for the chapters we completed."

Education seems to be the only product of which students don’t care whether or not they get their money's worth.

College tuition is rising but my class periods and course curriculums are becoming shorter. Students are not spending petty cash, although it is cheaper than a number of schools. Yet college students continue to come to class late and tolerate early dismissals along with cancelled classes.

The perception that students have of their classes and professors is even more interesting. They will sit in class and never ask a question. A number of students don’t seem to understand a very simple concept.  College tuition is very expensive and we are paying professors to provide us with an efficient education.

For every minute you are in that class you’re utilizing a prepaid expense since you pay the school in advance.

Imagine if you had to pay a professor in cash at the end of each class?

If class ended early you might be reluctant to hand over the entire amount. You would probably pay him or her for what she provided. In other words, if the professor cancelled class they wouldn’t get paid. Rachel Defluri, a Communications Arts major, said: “We pay a lot of money for our education. I want my money's worth.”

Attending college is a legal contract. In a more simplistic version you can look at it as a magazine subscription. For example if you pay $30 dollars for a monthly magazine subscription and failed to receive 2 magazines, would you let the company keep the money? Probably not.

I believe the same holds true for college. If I arrive to class on time, the professor is 15 minutes late and the same class ends 10 minutes early, something is not right. At the end of the semester if I don’t have class one day, I think I should get a check for the amount with the minutes added up of any class in which I was let out early. I would argue that we should and until this is done, it may be considered a breach of contract.

When I sign up for a class I expect the professor to cover all the requirements stated in the syllabus.

We need solutions.

Here's my suggestion: If a professor has to miss a day of class, the school should provide a substitute for the period to account for the money we paid to be taught. Professors should always be on time and they should not be allowed to let us out early. This is the only way schools can rectify this problem in a manner that doesn’t involve sending checks to students.

If I didn’t pay for the class I wouldn’t be able to take it. If they don’t provide all the classes, I still have to pay? This seems illogical.