Posted on 09/19/2016 9:38:31 PM PDT by aquila48
ARLINGTON -- During her sophomore year at Arlington High School, Lexi Vier was told she had to take a foreign language class to fulfill graduation requirements. She made a decision that now could have a significant impact on her higher education once she graduates.
“I took German and fell in love with it so much,” she said.
So much to the point she was elected president of the German Club. As graduation approaches, she is looking in a direction more and more Americans have considered in recent years.
College in Germany. And perhaps more intriguing -- college for free.
As of 2014, all German public universities offer free tuition. The higher education system in Germany is funded by taxpayers much like the K-12 system in the United States. For students like Lexi who do not mind the experience of education abroad, the free education is a major factor when making a decision.
“It is either between German universities or Air Force ROTC.”
Tuition in the United States has doubled at public universities since 2004, according to U.S. News and World Report. The increasing difficulties of higher learning in the U.S., highlighted by the recent closure of ITT Technical Institute, are why educational advisor Jay Malone believes Germany is becoming a serious option.
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They have English courses for foreigners.
Haha, have a system which attracts parasites and watch parasites come flocking in.
Semi-serious side implications. Who got all the German scientists after the war was the REAL spoils.
Good way to meet moozlems.
I go to Canada every year. They don’t speak German up there but we catch a ton of walleyes.
Any walleyes in Germany?
Just Carp?
Dang...
that’s bound to piss off german taxpayers.
Merkel said she’s sorry so its all good. :-(
Any refugee camps near the college?
You might want to add one other stipulation....there is a limit. Unlike US colleges which just keep on adding instructors and throwing up more classrooms....most German universities are kinda locked to a limited number of students and limited growth.
I might also note that while the tuition side is free....you will pay for your room/board, and this won’t be cheap. Also, if you intend to party your way through college in Germany....you will be let go by the end of the first semester.
This could be a good thing. Do the Germans preach the wonders of communism and the hatred of America in their colleges the way the “colleges” do here?
Good luck not being assaulted by refugees, dear.
“Good way to meet moozlems.”
I call em moose-limbs. But, yeah.
Muzzies don’t go to school except to learn what is in the Koran. Tuition maybe free but room and board isn’t.
This girl will be disillusioned then. A lot of these free tuition freaks think that it’ll be just one long Mardi Gras.
She likely skready kann English ....
She likely already kann English ....
German is easier to follow when you are listening to someone speak it for whom it is a second language.
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