it’s about time.
‘bout damned time.
And if 48% of these yutes decided to forestall going to College for 1-2 years Tuition would DROP BY 50% OVERNIGHT!!!
...and every damned one of those kids will vote for Bernie.
That’s just so the kids could get scolarships and loans.
Record?
That’s how it used to be not so long ago.
Only the truly wealthy sent their kids to college expecting that they wouldn’t contribute at least some to the cost by working their way through.
We offered our children room and board if they went to the local state university. The first graduated with a Psychology degree. The second opted for a local welding trade school. The third has enrolled in community college.
Yup,
We value most, what we personally pay for.
Prediction:
As the West’s economy contracts toward a crash, money will become scarce, and put the hurt on rip off gouging colleges and universities.
BS course professors will get ditched as the western world comes to realize practical education (STEM) is essential, and everything else is not, ie: Women’s and Ethnic studies.
I helped my boys through Tech college while they lived at home and worked at LEAST part time. Neither graduated with much debt at all, thanks to their Grandparents who invested in college funds for them from birth, and were on the same page as I was.
I flat-out told them if they were going to a state college for a useless degree, I wasn’t contributing a dime, and they couldn’t live at home for free, either.
One is an IT guy, doing really well and the other has a job and is also doing well designing traffic patterns for cities.
And they’ve not moved back in. Yippee! :)
My 20 year old paid for her own college. She worked her butt off in high school. Good Grades. Volunteering. Student Council. Arranging the Blood Drives. She spent 2 summers writing scholarship essays while her friends were out having fun. She worked and saved. With all her little scholarships she received, she gets her school and books paid for and still has about $3000 left over. I know it wasn’t easy. But it can be done. She voiced her frustrations and a few tears. Of course, we couldn’t be more proud of her.
Has college tuition been rising because low-information colleges are taking advantage of unconstitutional federal loans and grants for INTRAstate schooling?
Who can even afford to help the kids with college any more? We paid off the mortgage about five years ago, and now our regular expenses are taking up all the “slack” that used to be the mortgage payment. And we have not changed our lifestyle one bit, have no new cars, do not eat out, etc.
It’s also long past time wnen the colleges and universities give back most of that money because they’ve taken it under fraudulent circumstances. Here’s an idea, give all professors a 25% pay cut and use that money to retire some of the debt.
We are footing the bill for our daughter to earn a degree. We had a few conditions, she live at home, go local, get A’s, apply for scholarships to help, and earn her degree in a science field that pays well. We have one year left and she has kept her end of the bargain, each year she’s received about half of her tuition in scholarship funding. We are waiting to see what she gets for this last year. It has been a sacrifice but we really didn’t see how she could pay for it unless we helped.
Mine are, although I urge a strong vocational/technical education before even thinking of Kollege. Oh, and wait a year or two to mature first. Get a job and pay some bills - marvelous stuff for getting a direction.
The heck with college, I’d head right to a trade school.
You can always try to get a degree later.
I went to college (the first time .... ) back in the early 1980's. My parents paid $0.
Not only did my parents pay $0 I had to pay to live at home. I had to purchase my own clothes, food, do my own laundry, do chores around the house and help take care of my two younger brothers who were eight and nine years younger than I was.
I also worked four different jobs every week to pay for my college (which I commuted to every day) and pay my living expenses.
What did I learn from that? The value of hard work and perseverance. How to prioritize my time, save and spend my money wisely and learn how to do things I wouldn't have otherwise learned such as fixing my own car, learning electronics to do basic repairs (and make extra money) and most of all ... SELF RELIANCE.
Yes it took me longer to earn my first college degree but the life lessons I learned while doing it? Priceless.
When my oldest went to college almost 10 years ago he could not get a loan on his own. Has that changed?