Posted on 12/22/2015 11:35:23 AM PST by TigerClaws
In order to graduate from high school in Louisiana, students will soon be required to apply for federal financial aid for college.
The state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved the new graduation prerequisite earlier this month, and the new policy will go into effect beginning with the class of 2018.
The move makes the Pelican State the first in the country to require students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA, in order to receive a high school diploma.
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No, they just want to beef up their database of financial information on the parents.
What nonsense. Maine required all students who wish to graduate from high school to take the SAT test. So on a Saturday, hundreds of students will walk in fill in the bubbles without reading the questions and leave. Sad-a waste of time.
Can I ask a stupid question?
What if you aren’t going to college after high school? In that case, why would you bother with the FASFA paperwork?
Or what if you are going to a cheaper community college or state college, and not planning to borrow? Again no need to bother with it.
We paid full boat just to avoid that pathetic intrusion of privacy!
This will be found unconstitutional since it is an application for credit.
Its official - the Federal Government has taken over higher education.
Exactly.
To complete the FAFSA form, any student under the age of 26 must provide detailed income and asset information on their parents. It is worse than filling out most credit applications.
It’s to cram as many people as possible into college.
The bottom is going to drop out of college without the guaranteed debt. We could do most college classes online, off campus. The whole enterprise is about to be undone. It’s Blockbuster Video-level obsolete.
A waste of time and will be overturned by the courts, if the legislators don’t get it first. The President will get involved too. The Muslims are forbidden from taking interest-based loans.
If all the parents weren’t idiots, this would get slapped down very quickly.
Like the “forced” volunteerism hours required to graduate HS in Polk County, FL.
Frosts me just to read this swill.
Of course it’s an invasion of privacy, but it’s laying the groundwork for what I believe to be advancing socialism in our country. People without the financial means to pay, and even those who can, for so called higher education will be able to attend a university in exchange for some form of mandated government service afterwards.
“Like the “forced†volunteerism hours required to graduate HS in Polk County, FL.”
BINGO!
If you're not planning on going to college, think ahead. Education never stops, be it vocational or academic. For example, I took a class on wine & viticulture two years ago...best $150 I ever spent.
Wait till they pass a law stating you must show proof that you voted in order to actually collect your aid check.
I made a big mistake filling out the FAFSA, I will never do it again.
"It's good and sends the signal to get people to do it, and that's important," says Ben Miller, senior director for postsecondary education at the Center for American Progress. "Filling out the form by itself isn't going to solve our college access challenges, but it is definitely a start. You don't get any of the money you don't apply for."
Uh, OK. I guess.
BINGO. This is about enslaving parents.
“This is about enslaving parents.”
In their dreams, enslaving everybody. In the name of social equality and fairness of course.
It’s a final exam. If they haven’t learned enough to fill out a form, they shouldn’t graduate. < /sarc >
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