Posted on 12/12/2021 9:47:27 AM PST by bgill
In 2021, Texas high school seniors will be required to fill out an application for federal financial aid to make sure students don’t leave free college money unclaimed.
Texas and Louisiana are the only states that will now require high school students to apply for financial aid.
Earlier this summer Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 3 into law to increase school funding and approve teacher raises.
Abbott also approved a requirement for all Texas high school seniors to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA for college.
Ya'll Texans need to ditch that stealth RINO and get the Colonel in there.
Awesome.
Well, sure. Objectivity is wayciss, and lining up to suck at the goobermint teat is inherently antiwaycisss.
Progressives will use these numbers to justify gree college in some way.
Apparently YOU have never filled out an application for Top Secret Clearance. Some applications can be FAR to burdensome and are ridiculously so. I would suggest a 36 page application that expects information that is many, MANY decades old is just obnoxious and frankly I question whether ANY government, much less this one has any right to the information. Hell if Roe v. Wade is about privacy wtf is a 36 page application?
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, the drafters of the Constituiton had intended for high school seniors to contact their local and / or state governments for student aid, not the post-17th Amendment ratification, unconstitutonally big federal government.
In fact, consider that President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, also Justice Joseph Story, had both indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before Congress can dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling, something that the states have never done.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws" of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
But patriot students will first need to work with local and state leaders to put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes before their states will find new revenues to encourage students with student financial assistance.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
And to permanently restore state control of education, students will also need to work with their local and state governments to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Or if the states eventually decide that the federal government can manage their education dollars better then the states can (yeah, right), then the states can always follow through with Jefferson's now unthinkable advice and appropriately amend the Constitution for federal involvement in intrastate schooling.
On Jefferson's behalf, he also wrote the following.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787).
re: “Apparently YOU have never filled out an application for Top Secret Clearance.”
In this day and age of ‘social media’, participation in on-line groups, etc, that’s got to be a nightmare ...
I agree. I have a offspring going to college and there is no hope for financial aid. But I had to fill out the freaking forms for her to apply. No matter how many times I said no need I don’t want aid or came down to a requirement for application. It was just a way for the government to have the kids send parents info to the government.
It is way to much and big brotherish. If I don’t want it why do I need to apply?
This was a real eye opener for me
“2) Any student whining that it’s too hard to fill out shouldn’t be qualified for college.”
Good point, as you do have to KNOW HOW TO READ to fill out the application.
Our guidance counselor posted the info just 3 weeks before the deadline.
My biorhythms were in sync that day, and I did well enough to get the scholarship.
Trust me, the FAFSA is NOT that difficult.
My 19 YO son's in for a shock, he'll be filing his income tax return in a few months. If he comes to me, I'll help him out, but I'm not doing it for him.
“Trust me, the FAFSA is NOT that difficult.”
There’s another issue, arising from the fact that (1) school is compulsory, and that (2) the FAFSA form involves all sorts of invasive questions.
It is easy to make the case that the combination of the above two things is a violation of every parent’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. It’s nobody’s business what assets someone has, or how much they make, or how big their 401k is, or anything else, that must be mandatorily reported in order for their kids to graduate from school - which is also mandatory.
Yup. Same here. I looked at all they wanted to know. Said not a chance. Both sons graduated with out me filling it out.
Why must this Free Federal Application for Student Aid be mandated to graduate?
It smells like a political boondoggle to enrich out “Betters”.
Good post—the requirement is totally insane—and should be overturned by the courts.
As a Unix admin, I worked for the DOE providing the IT infrastructure in the backroom. We had to triple computing capacity as the deadline approached. Any outage was a supreme crisis. I must say the DOE personnel were of high quality during my time.
For the upper middle class kids, the most they can “receive” in “aid” is $5500/year in unsubsidized students loans. Hardly worth the trouble of filling out a FASFA. A year of public college tuition is about $15k now and room and board is the same.
Think about the most intrusive financial document the govt can create about three people: the person submitting the form and his parents. My wife fills out our taxes and it runs into 25-30 pages and she considered the FAFSA form to be on a higher level of intrusion and complexity.
You cannot get any loan (even with a private bank) without the FAFSA, so unless you are completely self-funded, your child will have to complete that form. We went with a private bank (the rate was cheaper since we co-signed) and they cross-checked the FAFSA with our submission, so you just can't "fire and forget." I have no idea what level of intrusion/checking the govt would do if my son had gone with student aide.
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