I wonder if liberals would support caps on malpractice claims if we started suing colleges for malpractice?

A recent college graduate is suing the school that graduated her because she can’t find a job:

Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx, graduated from New York’s Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology.

On July 24, she filed suit against the college in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe’s “Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing^[a] them because of the stress I have been going through.”

The CNN article also includes a link to a PDF of the court filing, here. Reading through the document, I had a few thoughts.

First, I can’t imagine that Monroe College (or any other college for that matter) makes any sort of guarantee about finding a job after college. I’ve seen colleges boast about their placement rate, but it’s never 100%, and I’ve never seen a guarantee anywhere.

Second, is she really boasting about a 2.7 GPA? It’s not that that’s a bad GPA, but I think it’s pretty average. If I recall correctly^[b], my final GPA was relatively close to that, and I had a very bad habit of not going to class.

Third, she’s su(e)ing for the wrong reason. Obviously, the real lawsuit here is for educational malpractice; based on the way she’s written in this filing, I think she’s got pretty good evidence that every teacher she’s had since seventh grade (with the possible exception of classes centering around math or science, since those classes don’t tend to use language as much in graded material) has failed her miserably (by failing to fail her).

1. Note that their quote here is a misquote, as Ms. Thompson actually wrote that she was also “sueing” the college on page 5 of the pdf. [↩]
2. It’s been many years since I graduated, so I don’t really remember my GPA well. [↩]