um... here’s a crazy idea... choose a university you can afford?
naa... that would make too much sense !
that would be like saying everyone can’t buy a porche !
The taxpayers owe me a Fine Arts degree from some “quality” professors.
“But, if the state were to increase funding to lift the weight of student debt off our shoulders, we would all be in a much better financial situation then we are currently in.”
No, the college would increase the spending on its programs like lifting professor outrageous salaries or providing plush dorms.
>>sk anyone if they believe burdening a student with thousands of dollars of debt while receiving a quality education is a good idea and you will likely receive the same answer.<<
No one is burdening anyone with anything. People have Free Will (for the moment anyway). You can get a GREAT education at almost any state school everywhere in the country (the leftist indoctrination is at state and private so that is a different subject).
If someone finances a Ferrari when they can only afford a Mitsubishi Mirage and both will provide the same service, don’t come to me with your hand out asking me to pay for your freaking Ferrari.
Why should We the People be on the hook for someone that got a quality degree in underwater basket weaving?
How to avoid debt:
DO NOT CREATE DEBT
But. instead... go to W O R K!
Now there’s a novel idea
Protest the departments for diluting the curricula with nonsense degrees with no job opportunities.
Protest the professors for living high lifestyles on your backs.
-PJ
If you want to be programmed and indoctrinated by Marxists and communists, pay for it yourself.
The blame lies in the universities themselves. They are paying professors to do nothing under the guise of ‘tenure’ and the number keeps growing.
Make tenure go away at public institutions and prices will fall..........................
The ONE thing no longer taught in college, with the college debt being used to create currency, is Return On Investment.
Well, maybe that is two things.
There are ads now running on TV for employers to pay new hires' student debt. I doubt that gets far and I think it could hamper someone getting a job. If two, or more, equally qualified candidates apply for a job, why would an employer take on the student debt of one? They would be the first one eliminated in the selection process.
College is where you begin to learn the cold, hard facts of life and making choices based on your financial position is a major lesson.
I’d rather join a movement against outrageous tuition and book costs. THAT is what needs to be addressed. The ones that took out loans to get their degree have already made their bed ... time to sleep in it.
One used to be able to work themselves through college. Now it’s way overpriced.
I’d be on-board for doing this for veterans. College costs have far outstripped the funds from the GI Bill, and vets are certainly more deserving of having their education covered than some basement-dwelling snowflake.
When do we have a movement against high car payments?
Maybe they should all take on the way College of the Ozarks does it ... make students work for their education.
“C of O is unique among higher education institutions in America: no tuition is charged, all students work on campus, debt is openly discouraged, and no federal, state or private loans are made.”
- Jerry C. Davis, President
Yes, my family didn’t have the funds to send their two kids to college, so I simply did the obviously unthinkable thing with today’s youth!
I got a job after high school, worked and attended night school and summer classes.
Some times I even dropped out to save for more classes the next semester, season or even more, if the classes I needed were only available for a specific semester.
Guess what, I even graduated on the Dean’s List but wasn’t able to walk because I didn’t have that time off from work!
That diploma was even sweeter because I EARNED every bit of it!!!
Or, crazy as it sounds, one could repay one’s debts.
So, student, get a job and pay your own way. Then there’s no debt. It may take you seven years instead of four to get that degree ending in the word “studies” that does not suit you for any gainful employment, but when you don’t get that sought-after gubmint job you’ll at least have some work history to fall back on!
How unique!
WORK
I did 8 in US NAVY and all I asked for was ‘help’ buying a house some 13 years later, when I could ‘afford’ it and take advantage of a loan without all the hassles and hidden fees.
I guess I was stupid because I (and my wife) spent the next 25 or so years paying off the LOAN.
Then my youngest daughter came to US and ‘demanded’ us to PAY for (not finance or help) her upcoming college.
I told her I would be glad to see she got a FREE COLLEGE(at least down payment/money wise) and if she kept her grades up I was sure one of the Academys would have wanted her.
She said ‘I don’t want to go in the Army or Navy’.
We compromised.
She went to JC for two years, transferred to and worked her way (with SOME assistance from us) through Virginia Tech and completed...Even found her a husband that was willing to ‘support’ her to which she very easily adjusted.
‘WE’ weren’t in poverty or even lower income BUT were comfortable and she did better than that.
Isn’t that ‘our’ job- To help make sure our kids are doing a little better than we did?