Posted on 12/22/2015 11:35:23 AM PST by TigerClaws
In order to graduate from high school in Louisiana, students will soon be required to apply for federal financial aid for college.
The state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved the new graduation prerequisite earlier this month, and the new policy will go into effect beginning with the class of 2018.
The move makes the Pelican State the first in the country to require students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA, in order to receive a high school diploma.
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Most will end up with a mortgage sized debt and a worthless degree.
If a degree is not math-based it is almost always a negative return on investment.
I wish I had known about that four years ago. FAFSA was a nightmare.
I did it the old way before I located that form in TaxAct. What a pain!
It is part of the liberal mistaken belief that EVERYONE must go to college.
The college counselor at my son’s Independent School told us that at the upper end colleges, they will much more likely admit students that are not asking for financial aid.
She says that a non-financial aid application is worth at least 100 to 200 points on the SAT.
She knows her stuff!
It has nothing to do with "mistaken beliefs".
It is about indoctrination.
The Left has found that Socialist Indoctrination from Head Start through High School doesn't produce a high enough percentage of brain-dead liberals.
They get their biggest indoctrination ROI in college; where they can get the students away from the parents' influence.
That is why the Left demands that everyone go to college; to turn all the students into brain-dead automatons (on the tax-payers' dime, of course).
”. . . , students will soon be required to apply for federal financial aid for college.”
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following.
As a consequence of the parents of the members of Louisianas Board of Elementary and Secondary Education not making sure that their now adult children were taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers, board members unsurprisingly do not understand the following. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, intrastate education in this example.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
I suppose that the Board could always argue that they were just trying to recover state revenues that the corrupt, post 17th Amendment ratification Congress stole from the state in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.
I don’t think it’d past constitutional muster.
Stupid. They should have had a minimum score requirement. I was required to pass the SAT II in German along with an oral proficiency exam and ad hoc reading proficency (to prime the oral proficiency exam) to meet the requirement. The passing score for the written exam was a minimum 680 in a possible range of 200 - 800. I managed at 760. A native German speaker in the language department handed me a copy of Das Bild and assigned an article to read and discuss. After reading and discussion, another 10 minutes of ad hoc discussion followed. Had I started Revelle, UCSD just a year earlier, I would have been required to do that for TWO foreign languages.
Addressing the requirement to sign up for government students loans...it is asinine. Not every student is capable of college. Not every student needs loans. Some actually have ability and scholarships.
San Diego tried the forced volunteer work to graduate. My middle son took them on. It's a violation of the 13th Amendment. Involuntary servitude as a condition of graduation. My son took it on the air with Roger Hedgecock on KOGO. The district struck the requirement for everyone.
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