Really? How about working to save the way the rest of us did? And, how many degrees in “Underwater basketweaving” are being given to kids who don’t want to work, but want some kind of “cred”?
You can’t now, because in the risk free lending environment created by outlawing the discharge of student debt in bankruptcy the resultant flood of money into colleges has driven the price up to where you can’t pay your way through on summer and part time jobs.
It is also the reason there are a myriad of worthless majors available now, wymens studies, underwater fire prevention, refuse basket odor control, etc... all exist from being created to soak up the essentially free cash sloshing around from risk free lending.
You’re talking step 200...
The following should be the norm for ALL education, K+:
Step 1: Remove taxpayer funding from the equation. It’s illegal and immoral to begin.
Step 2: Remove all tenure. Make all ‘pay as you go’, like any OTHER service.
Step 3: Education will reduce to those degrees that will actually PAY; outside of college.
Step 4: Reduction in govt will allow those that wish to save, to do so; and more would swell the ranks when the opportunity presents.
Step 5: Teachers will be hired based on ability. They can be fired for their inability as well. ‘Mini-schools’ will spring up to cater to the locals.
I’m sure I could keep going, but the basics are there...
Another driver of the student loan bubble - the half of students who go to school but don’t finish a degree, who would have been better off going a vo-tech route but were told you have to go to college, you have to go to college.