Posted on 04/11/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by pabianice
Went to school on the GI Bill after 4 yrs in the Navy, helped some. I still had to work full time while going to school full time. At a state supported school. Not one a them LEAGUE schools. Didn’t borrow a cent.
The very first day of sixth grade our teacher wrote that on the chalkboard and then he explained it to us. It stuck with me my whole life.
If you expect to get the 5% to 15% increase in budget, then you'd better use up your current allotment of monies on useless crap.
College is already free. The government hands out student loans and 40% stop paying them back. More tax dollars given away for loyalty to socialism.
Stopped reading right there. What isn't a "right" to lefties.
Oh I know what isn't, being born. To lefties college education, murdering unborn babies, and whatever else their immature brains can conjure are rights.
Pffft
For those keeping score at home:
Government intervention in the form of loans and grants hyper-inflated college tuition. Simply put, the more government gravy that became available, the more colleges ramped up the cost of tuition. Statistics clearly bear this out.
The higher the cost of tuition the more students were forced to borrow. Moreover, the ease of borrowing allowed many students to throw in the cost of that cool spring break, new cell phone, maybe an old car, etc.
Now we have a couple of generations of carefree snowflakes who have borrowed to the hilt, and often irresponsibly. They are now drowning in debt with many simply biding their time waiting for Comrade Bernie or Hillary to wave the magic wand and forgive all student loans and hand the cost over to taxpayers.
My lovely daughter-in-law brought nearly $100,000 in debt to the marriage and she had the nice car, cell phone, swank apartment, etc...Now son is pulled into her debt issues.
Add to that fact that they also put their honeymoon on student loan debt. Of course I did not find this out for years...Perhaps they did it because of the competitive interest rates when compared with credit cards; however, I would have postponed the trip to Hawaii if I were them even tho they did get free housing and my gift was airfare....
Point is I absolutely agree with you that their loans are often padded with other expenditures.
Side note, they are both making good money but cannot buy a house due to their debt.
Well, it could be implemented by adopting the way in which it is done in other developed countries with free university educations: rigorous entrance examinations so that the number of students admitted can be educated within the institution’s budget without tuition receipts, using only taxpayer funds, regarding having bright students receive proper university educations as a public good, and income from endowments (even public universities now have endowments).
This would mean that college degrees would no longer be able to be used as lazy HR tools to keep applicants qualified for jobs that can be done on the basis of a high school education or simple native talent from actually being screened, and it we would need to beef up our trade schools (I favor creating polytechnics — trade schools with just a little more academic oomph, so that one would learn the science behind one’s trade plus a thin general post-secondary education).
If college or university was the only place and the only way you could learn something, the author might be closer to a point.
But it isn’t and it’s not.
I was talking to someone the other free college advocate the other day and I asked why shouldn’t I, at 48 with a law degree, just not get another degree on the house? That’s not what her policy intended, by I asked why it wasn’t a good idea. She didn’t see it coming.
Assuming that Coughlin is a person I hope that he/she told this snowflake to buck up....and go get a job.
Turns out the author, Erika Civitarese, is a little marxist. Check out her FB for a few little hints.
Just have the government pay. See, no problem.
‘’Just specific careers. Law, medicine, etc. ‘’
Those degrees cost around $300,000 just for the schooling.
Who has that to start with?
After school, there are hefty costs in certain career paths such as medicine where you have to pay $50k-$100k insurance after residency to pay for any suits that could occur as a result of something you did in your residency.
There’s too much chest thumping on this thread by old timers who just have not paid attention to the sky rocketing costs of education.
The problem is the gov’t subsidization first. That needs to be fixed.
The students are literally too young to know any better. That is why socialism is appealing to them.
It is up to us to eliminate the easy money. Forget the chest thumping and pummeling of the young people.
Well, it could be implemented by adopting the way in which it is done in other developed countries with free university educations: rigorous entrance examinations so that the number of students admitted can be educated within the institutions budget without tuition receipts, using only taxpayer funds, regarding having bright students receive proper university educations as a public good, and income from endowments (even public universities now have endowments)
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So no one with less than a 1300 or 1400 SAT?
Oh, free government money. Why didn’t I think of that?
Oldest grandson went to junior college for two years, then took two years off to work and save his money to pay for the last two years. Said he cannot believe how totally lazy and spoiled most of his classmates are. He’s carrying 15 hours and working 30 hours a week but still has time to sleep, eat and do nothing. Some of them do get it.
It was once proposed that the government should pay for and provide free food for all in the form of rice and beans. These items provide a fine diet, one that is common in many places where college education is free.
The analog in hire education would be a degree in a classic core curriculum. Majors must have some utility. No victim studies courses. No feminist deconstruction. There would be class attendance requirements and real exams.
LOL. Yeah a free college education you will pay for for life...
And everything would be nothing.
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