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States Weigh Making Financial-Aid Applications a High-School Graduation Requirement
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 23, 2021 | Melissa Korn

Posted on 01/23/2021 8:59:34 AM PST by karpov

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To: karpov
I think it was a guest column over at the DBDailyUpdate a few days ago that pointed out that our major institutions, including Academe, were trying to hold back inevitable restructuring in the face of changing circumstances.

I have believed for several years that our present model of post-high school education is broken. I am a big believer in trade schools. I personally have a B.S. And in my professional field, I am probably now at a point were an M.S. or PhD really would not help me be more effective at what I do. I might want an M.S. if I wanted a change in career--but I don't want to do that.

41 posted on 01/23/2021 10:36:38 AM PST by Lysandru
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If the states would put a stop to unconditional federal taxes, taxes that corrupt Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, INTRAstate schooling not listed among those powers, then local communities and states would find new revenues to support post-high school education.

In fact, President Thomas Jefferson had clarified, in a State of the Union address, that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress the power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes, something that the states have never done.

"On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress

Justice Joseph Story later reflected on Jefferson’s words when he likewise pointed out that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to deal with intrastate schooling.

"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2

42 posted on 01/23/2021 10:40:07 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: karpov

They are trying to ruin this country down to the state level now.


43 posted on 01/23/2021 10:41:13 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: whatexit
parents will be mandated to make financial disclosures or their children will be denied a HS diploma.

That was my first thought, too.

It's really about collecting more banking information from everyone.

-PJ

44 posted on 01/23/2021 10:48:16 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Paleo Pete

More like South Canada, perhaps?

(I speak as a non-indoctrinated Canadian.)


45 posted on 01/23/2021 10:50:08 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

The fafsa is such bs.

Emancipate your children at least year before it needs to be filled out.

That is what i learned


46 posted on 01/23/2021 11:08:41 AM PST by algore
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To: karpov

Why stop with Financial Aid applications? How about early College Summer School admission for Antifa training in street tactics? Make friends, live in the dorms, become part of The Great Social Movement (GSM), and get credit towards graduation before the freshman year even begins.


47 posted on 01/23/2021 11:14:07 AM PST by Knocker (Tell the truth and run like hell)
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Its already almost mandatory now. Unless you are paying for college in cash, you have to fill out a FAFSA (Federal Application for Student Aid). This is required to even get a scholarship or grant. Every student, even returning students, to higher education beyond High School is required/must fill out a FAFSA to get student aid. This even goes for those jobs on campus that are funded by the Federal Government. So why the legislation? It is already a mandatory requirement by the Feral Government. This is like having having fifteen agencies regulate and study what squirrels eat.


48 posted on 01/23/2021 11:40:46 AM PST by zaxtres (`)
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To: karpov

One thing about these stinking communists who now rule us, they generate enslavement absurdities using a time-tested recursion process...

Imagine what it will be like 3-months from now...


49 posted on 01/23/2021 12:07:16 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: cdcdawg

This is more red propaganda. They want commie brains bad! No way in hell would this family go along with this BS.


50 posted on 01/23/2021 12:23:53 PM PST by magna carta (TX all you have to do is send an email to principal with a witness included on the communication.)
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To: karpov

Illegal and immoral.

It is a lie to say everyone must go to college or trade school to succeed.

This is illegal information harvesting. It is unnecessary for those who will pay for their own college, their kids college, or not going to college.


51 posted on 01/23/2021 1:31:35 PM PST by tbw2
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So, does this mean they would have to force their parents to disclose all their sources of income? Is that the real point of this exercise?


52 posted on 01/23/2021 1:56:43 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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If HS students haven’t learned enough to complete an application for something before HS, then they should not be allowed to graduate.

When I was in 3rd grade, we were taught how to write bank checks to PAY for something.

Now, it seems they want to teach HS kids how to BEG for taxpayers to GIVE them money.


53 posted on 01/24/2021 3:46:50 PM PST by octex
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To: T-Bird45

Good comments. Completely agree.


54 posted on 01/24/2021 3:50:54 PM PST by octex
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