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No..most Americans that enter college end up dropping out. Would be a waste of taxpayer dollar.
And God forbid we only pay for those that are truly "college ready". We'd let everyone go to college including the illegals.
Your so correct as know many young people who have started,drawn a check every month for their expences and then never finished. Weren't big on paying back the loans either. Laws have changed and now the govt will get it back sooner or later.We had a community college here that took anybody. In may instances the people never graduated from school, could barely read or write, spelling horrible and when someone caught on would dismiss people from program. One in particular took all the money he got for tuition and bills and went with girlfriend to fla. for ten days. Probably thousands of cases like this. No wonder people clamor to get here as we are the easiest nation on the planet to rip off and get away with it.
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Obama threw out this idea last year and promoted free community college. Knowing that it had no chance, that is.
As the election season is heating up and with his national popularity growing, Bernie Sanders has also been busy touting the free college rhetoric for all 4-year universities. Seems like this idea has been taking off in recent years especially with student loan debt ranking just behind credit card debt.
Do you support the left's idea of free college tuition? Good or bad for America?
Yep, I support it.
Despite the objections of conservatives, we Americans decided decades ago that children should get a free education. And that's worked out very well.
And for decades a high school education was enough to make a decent living. Well that's no longer the case... now you need more education.
So a rational country would think... ok, today's world requires more education. It worked pretty well when we gave universal education up through high school. Let's extend that to college.
its education system is quite racist not by intent but by outcome - it's heavily weighed against the immigrant or less "traditionally" French kids who can navigate the system with help of parental and institutional knowledge advantage.
And this is why this kind of system would never fly here. So forget it, folks: we can't have a northwestern European-style university system, and that's that.
Would you rather pay for college and have a progressive educated country where citizens are contributing tax payers. Or, would you rather pay for more prisons and entitlements?
Despite the objections of conservatives, we Americans decided decades ago that children should get a free education. And that's worked out very well.
And for decades a high school education was enough to make a decent living. Well that's no longer the case... now you need more education.
So a rational country would think... ok, today's world requires more education. It worked pretty well when we gave universal education up through high school. Let's extend that to college.
Doesn't seem like that big a stretch to me.
And where's the money for this going to come from?
Despite the objections of conservatives, we Americans decided decades ago that children should get a free education. And that's worked out very well.
And for decades a high school education was enough to make a decent living. Well that's no longer the case... now you need more education.
So a rational country would think... ok, today's world requires more education. It worked pretty well when we gave universal education up through high school. Let's extend that to college.
Doesn't seem like that big a stretch to me.
High school education is still enough if you learn a skill afterwords. Many are making plenty of money in fields that cannot find workers, plumbers, linemens, welders, electricians, etc.
High school education is still enough if you learn a skill afterwords. Many are making plenty of money in fields that cannot find workers, plumbers, linemens, welders, electricians, etc.
Bull****.
I've known people in all those lines of work. Hell I've worked as a welder. And yes there are good paying jobs in those fields. And for every good paying job with security and a future... there are TEN jobs with **** pay and no job security.
A few people make a good living at blue-collar work (mostly at union jobs or in heavily regulated industries where you can only hire on if you're the boss's brother-in-law). But by and large this country has no respect for blue-collar workers. And that's a direct result of Republican policies.
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