How much it costs to go to college - almost $15,000 tuition and fees at our State University, my alma mater. A teen would have to work almost 48 hours a week for 52 weeks to earn a year’s tuition.
When I went to school, that could be earned in a summertime. Not to mention that, but I actually had real live associate and full professors teaching me. My lecture classes held 150 people, and *that* was considered huge. Nowadays, classes are taught by teaching assistants; professors that retire aren’t replaced. The salary is just split up to hire a lot of benefit-less grad students. Lecture classes have 500 people in them. Kids leave with $35,000 worth of debt, and no jobs.
It’s a different world than the one we went to college in.
Err, the “that” that I could earn in a summertime during the 70s was *tuition*, not 15K. Tuition was only 500 or 600 a year back them. $760 a year when I left.