I get the impression not even democrats trust Alan Grayson, or want much to do with him. We’ve all seen how easy it is for Grayson to make nasty, hateful, false remarks.
Loons tend to flock together.
Nope. I worked my way through two degress. You can not get my money for your college— GO TO WORK!!
If they push through where students get to attend college without paying, classes will become a total joke.
A lot of the "culture classes" in college are designed for students that have no business in a college and can't handle a legit workload of STEM or workforce classes. Making it free for students would triple down on the number of classes discussing the true meaning of Luke and Leia's kiss in a male dominated society.
As an oldster, it appears to me that kids need to go to college just to get a high school education these days.
I love how these colleges are never confronted with their ever increasing massive tuitions. Yes, instead let the taxpayer pay whatever they want.
So, when everyone gets a “free” college education, the standard for entry level jobs will be a graduate degree rather than the devalued undergrad degree.
There is not much benefit in going to college any more. Government should not pay for it. The quality of the individuals it churns out reflects the decades of marxist influence in education.
I lived in Florida in the 1980s when they started their prepaid college tuition program and I signed up for my daughter.
So they set the tuition to a very low amount, but raised the mandatory fees by big bucks. So, be careful.
Pre-K education indoctrination.
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In the real world, there is only two roads that free college tuition works. The first road is to admit only the best and brightest high school students into college, the rest are off to trade school or work. And these schools are bare bones centers of high academic achievement. No food courts, no big time sports. The standards of teaching are what was seen at Ivy League institutions 50-60 years ago, and if you cannot keep up, your out. This system of free college could actually work. The second road is to let everybody in, and these free tuition colleges will be barely, if even, better than your average high school. A degree from one of these schools will be virtually worthless. Those who attend private colleges will get all the good jobs, while those at the free state schools will have wasted there time and our money. This system would be an unmitigated disaster.
In regards to closing the income gap between the rich and poor, the first road might actually work. A poor kid who wanted to rise in the world through hard work could actually accomplish it. But the Left will do what the Left will do and they will pick road two. This again will widen the income gap even further. The rich will attend good private colleges and the poor will attend crappy state universities.
It’s not free, somebody has to pay. I resent others getting free rides while my husband and I have truly sacrificed to get our daughter through college without debt, working hard and she is a 4.0 student and also works. People do not work hard when they aren’t making an investment in their own education.
I think free college is a GREAT idea: no tuition, no fees, free books, no government money, professors/administrators/personnel work for free and any necessary money comes out of the school’s endowment.
If Americans think a college education is expensive now, just wait till it’s free!
