[txrefugee]

The solution is enrolling in your favorite college online. No frills and fewer bills.

[Born to Conserve]

Colleges should be required to cosign all government student loans. If the students to keep up payments, the colleges have to pay.

This should be retroactive.

[1Old Pro]

Community College for your first 2 years is also a prudent approach. More economic, helps kids define their interests, allow time for acclimation to college life.

[georgiarat]

In many Stares, Georgia being one, Current Student , actually student govt, votes for fees to pay for fees to pay for a new building that will come online after they graduate and for a feee they will. Ever pay. It becomes the responsibility of the students following them.

[PGalt]

Hey young socialists weren’t you taught? Socialism is Legal Plunder - The Law; Bastiat 1801-1850. Enjoy, indoctrinated debt slaves. Read about Bourgeois Bernie in the Communist Manifesto. Karl hated him.

[subterfuge]

All those “education” bureaucrats have to get paid somehow. And the tenured professor of lesbo studies making $165,000 per year also has to get their dough. Pay up, suckers!

[Ford4000]

Mandatory fees mandated by mandatory student government mandated by the accreditation cartel. College is an American treasure dontya know.

[oincobx]

Somebody’s got to pay for all those money losing athletic programs. Kids working weekends unable to go the games paying for the scholarships of rhe kids playing the games.

[mmichaels1970]

Public High Schools in Ohio have been doing it for years. Some are "optional":
"Pay to play"
Band fees
Choir fees
AP Course fees

Some are mandatory:
Annual "Consumables" fees
ELA (English/Language Arts) fees*.
Math fees*
Foreign Language course fees
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
US History
World History
Human Anatomy

* fees for "gifted" programs are higher

Each of my four high school grads has run up about $1500 in fees throughout high school that have to be paid before they can walk at graduation. Gotta make sure you keep up with those or you end up with a huge bill come graduation. The fees start accumulating from kindergarten.

What happens in Ohio is that the local districts put property tax levies on the ballot (which State Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional over 10 years ago). Then when the voters vote it down, they jack up the fees, cut busing, force parents of the young ones to wait in a carpool line two blocks long.

Once they finally "break" the voter and get their levy passed, the fees they imposed are never rescinded or reduced.

[9YearLurker]

16.9% over 5 years is just a smidge over the inflation rate, at most.

[cymbeline]

Only if you choose to go to such a college.