If you want to take a year off before college, fine. Get a job!
Of course by "colleges", the mean "taxpayers".
Your tuition dollars at work. Isn’t part of the purpose of taking time between high school and college to “find yourself” is to WORK a little to gain some maturity and perspective on what you want to do with your life before you go???? I guess that’s not the case anymore. In today’s society, “work” doesn’t have much to do with what people do with their lives.
They used to have gap years, it was called ‘joining the military.’
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I was at some Tufts discussions to incoming students a few years back, and the overlying theme to this FR ear was globullization. Typically, across colleges/univ across the US, a semester of the Junior year has been for travel (with the study programs that really have no counterpart outside the US the exception, where the 4-y student does no semesters abroad).
Perhaps that is not enough globullizing the student, and they prefer to start earlier... pre-Freshman. That way, they don’t waste Freshman/Sophomore before they are properly glowbullized.
I think every kid should work at a dead end job for a year between high school and college. If more kids did, a lot of the leftist nonsense colleges peddle wouldn’t stick.
colleges are ingenious in finding ways to keep tuition/expenses sky high.
it is time to put a cap on the federal student loan program.
I had a “gap 5 years” where I learned I sure as hell didn’t want to keep mopping floors and waiting for someone in the factory to die so a job opens up for a living
This seems excessive.
I will admit, the biggest regret I have from college is not taking a semester at sea or abroad program.
It’s very hard to do that once you are in the working world. Now I have to hope I can live to see retirement to do it then.
But, the college paying for a full YEAR is too much.
Ultimately, that is on the taxpayers at many of these schools.
No kidding.
Tufts must be nuts.
Tufts sits near the Leftist Bastion known as Boston. It will continue to do its job of resupplying more pseudo-intellectual Leftists to the Boston Area. An education at Tufts (probably now approaching $60K per year) was a total waste of money even before this “gap year” plan. The other 4 years at Tufts are gap years, too.
‘Gap’ years can lead to “Aero-postal’ years......................
“If you want to take a year off before college, fine. Get a job!”
I absolutely agree. Or, spend a year doing public service of some sort.
-suspect I learned a lot more about the real world than any of these Tufts travelers will---
Working in another country and paying one’s local living expenses would be a great educational experience. The experience would be diminished by having it subsidized.
Each gap year should begin with applying for work visas in other countries and learning where your labor is and is not wanted.
If you can’t afford to play in the Riveira, you could always get a job. My nephew just got back from Afghanistan (Reserves), 2/3 of his bonus earned and with loan repayment and GI Bill - he should graduate w/o loans.
Sounds like glorified internships for liberal interest groups to me, and not hands on charity work or volunteering. Did that student who worked in microfinance get out and help people living in the slums and eating out of the city dump? Did the student who went to Senegal work in the hospital for the elites, or some hut in the jungle? They are doing it for themselves anyway, so what they do is pretty much wasted effort.