No one is owed anything, but if the govt is really interested in increasing the number of adults with college degrees and booting the number of better jobs in the US, there's no reason why they shouldn't lower college tuition costs, especially considering what a lot of this tuition money ends up being wasted on by these colleges.
Reason One:
Private universities should not be mircomanaged by the fools in Washington. Private universities belong to someone, and it's up to that someone to set the prices in a competitive and free market.
Free markets have their own natural mechanisms for shedding waste.
Reason Two:
The Federal government doesn't have the authority to subsidize or run schools of any type outside of the US military. Read the Constitution.
The fact that so many students have to take out loans just to get an education shows just how crazy public college tuition is. Plenty of capable people don't go to college just because of the money issue,
Life's a bitch, ain't it?
I fail to see where their failure is my problem that I have to pay for.
I know someone, know him well, who didn't have the money to go to college from high school. So he joined the Navy and learned how to run a nuclear power plant. Then when his term was over, he went to college on his own damn money.
What a concept.
while at the same time, plenty of kids with well-off parents go to college, spend the whole time partying, and just drop out and end up working at McDonald's.
A classmate of mine finished all the coursework, spending five years on a four year aerospace engineering degree at a private university, and refused to turn in her final aircraft design report. That F prevented her from getting a diploma, and guess what?
It's her problem, and her old man's, not the taxpayers.
Who knows, maybe if the govt had reasonable college costs, the HS dropout rate would go down too.
The reasonable cost to the government of anyone's education is zero dollars.
It's the parents' responsibility, and the student's, to get educated, not the taxpayers.
If people want to drop out of high school, it's their life, isn't it? If we sent the invading hordes of Mexico back home, these dropouts would be able to find work.
Because when the purpose of HS is to prepare for college and many of these lower-income class students know they probably can't afford college anyway, it kind of destroys much of the incentive to even care about finishing HS.
Well, if they're quitters, they're losers, and taxpayers shouldn't be funding mediocrity anyway.
You can't teach kids responsibility when you don't even give them the opportunity to use it by jacking up tuition costs so much that a kid is more motivated just to get a fast food job.
Their life, their choice.
I'd love to see free public college tuition like they have in Sweden myself.
It's not free.
