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You could say the same about K-12, yet everyone has access to K-12 public schools. We need to move beyond 12th grade to a college and vocational system that is also free in a sense like how K-12 public schools are.
My taxes pay for public school. Since my daughter attends parochial school, I demand a refund.
I am ashamed to say that this little idiot goes to the same school that I went to, that being Northeastern University.
I was there twenty years ago and at that time the tuition was roughly 12,000/year. It is now 40,000/year and these pinheads think the answer is to picket the government for free tuition?
I am ashamed to say that this little idiot goes to the same school that I went to, that being Northeastern University.
I was there twenty years ago and at that time the tuition was roughly 12,000/year. It is now 40,000/year and these pinheads think the answer is to picket the government for free tuition?
The left never seem to see what the source of a problem is.
They never go to solve the problem..just ask for bigger and bigger bandaids.
Tuition for public schools is disguised as property tax dollars. In my state.
It costs more to "educate" a public school kid per year in my town than it costs any local k-8 or 9-12 Catholic private schools or Montessori in the entire state.
Closer to $20K than $19K.
But it gets better….
I have a sibling who sends his 3 kids to a different private school than I send mine to. Logistics.
Tuition per child at that particular private school where he sends his children is averaged out to around $35K per year (after fees are included - not text books). Mine is a little higher. Logistics.
With an income of $350K plus a little? He qualifies for "financial aid".
He spends less to educate his kids in an outstanding and well-known private school than his local public school system spends per child….
Go figure.
If the public schools weren't so broken and beholden to unions and government BS? Maybe they'd be better.
Why not take a lesson from the private schools?
So basically you are advocating for education to be only for those that can afford it and no one else. I will ALWAYS disagree with this mentality. Education should never be just for the elite.
We didn't only do that for Wall Street. It was also done for Main Street America (American workers and retirees have $24.7 trillion invested in their pension plans and retirement accounts), and homeowners (the Federal Reserve owns about $2 trillion in GSE MBS, paid for by creating more money and adding that creation to the national debt).
Again, we have done this over and over.......you will do everything in your power to defend the welfare you benefit from but demean others when they want theirs.
i disagree, college should not be treated like k-12. k-12 is considered primary education, and the tuition as noted is disguised as property taxes.
college on the other hand is a completely different animal, and not everyone can or should go to college. that doesnt mean that college cant be made affordable though. there are things that can be done to make college more affordable for those that want to go, and should go. eliminate the government student loan program and put it back in the private sector. get the damn government out of education.
encourage businesses to expand the scholarship programs. let businesses find promising students, and have them pay for the students education, in return for the student working for the business for a period of time to be determined by contract. for instance the business could say pay for a bachelors degree in a particular field, then the student would work for the business for say 6 years. after that they can part ways or not.
I never said college was for everyone, if you want to reread my post you are commenting on, you would see that. Key word for you to look for is "vocational."
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