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No. They still have to apply to and get accepted by the college or university, meet certain standards in order to graduate. No different than what it is now. Only difference is that perhaps they'll be fewer who are burdened with student debt.
Yeah it gets shifted to the taxpayers. You want to pay for someone else’s tuition???
How is that liberals hear the word “FREE” and they actually believe it’s truly free?
In America, colleges are not for education but for credentials.
One can learn anytime, any way, any place, but only accredited colleges grant credentials necessary to be hired under current labor laws.
If government offered free or low cost examinations for credit, perhaps that would enable poor folks to acquire credentials without the expense of a college education.
We live in a feudal fiefdom system where everyone is clawing to try to get ahead by any means necessary. VERY few people are in a position to go to college to learn for the sake of learning when everyone is in a fight for survival against mega corps.
Yeah it gets shifted to the taxpayers. You want to pay for someone else’s tuition???
I'm already doing that with public schools. It's in the interest of society to have a well educated populace because they will in turn also contribute to growing the economy.
Yeah it gets shifted to the taxpayers. You want to pay for someone else’s tuition???
How is that liberals hear the word “FREE” and they actually believe it’s truly free?
You can price fix a commodity without throwing taxes at it. It will then be up to the university if they want to pay professors to keep good programs going or go under. Because the income will be a fixed value the over paid back room functionaries will have to take a hair cut along with the dean/provost, its that simple.
Also if its a state ran school the state can dictate who is getting a hair cut to maintain tuition rates at reasonable levels.
Some schools may be able to dig into endowments to pay over priced functionaries but they wont want to for very long when the tuition per class is a fixed rate by law and the school is required to provide X Y Z classes to keep their accreditation.
if you are a parent of a child that has been in HS and attended parent/student day, and spend a day in class rooms of your child, you may have experienced what I have. Not every student is motivated, not every student stays awake or is even trying to show respect for a teacher and pay attention.
We were lucky to have motivated kids, eager to learn and taking mostly AP classes, Duel Enrollment, etc.
But there were still some classes that were so called “regular” classes that had students sleeping on their desk. After talking to the teacher and asking why nothing was said to wake these students up, the teacher told me that trying to wake these kids up, etc. would take away from motivated students who loose out time due to the ones that don’t care. That was actually a good explanation and made sense.
Since HS (public school) is FREE, these kids often don’t care and are just there because they have to be there.
If Universities/Colleges are for FREE, we will have even more kids who do not want to work, rather be bored and sleep in class then being productive.
Anything that is for FREE, is not making many of them motivated as if they do not graduate they do not pay a dime back.
Where is the incentive to work hard!
Overall when someone has to pay for something they are more careful, more thoughtful, more interested to take care of what the item or goal is.
Most countries overseas have free college education. They make entry somewhat competitive.
The reason there is so much apathy in the USA is that the country's economy and economic development is broken. You can't go to college and have a reasonable chance of success when there is outsourcing, constant layoffs, etc. The dream of the middle class live barely exists. The reality is that for many there lives in relative terms will be worse than their parents' lives. That's a huge incentive to be apathetic for most.
Economic development has been by companies who really did not add much - facebook, amazon, and uber. Tesla may be an exception. You can argue that facebook, amazon, uber added something new, but I see that they simply put existing processes on the internet. No one went without goods before amazon shipped it from warehouse. No one who wanted a tax was left without one.
The country is stagnating. The energy has been zapped out. The country China that received the new jobs is growing.
Millions of dollars because in each classroom there might be one child sleeping?
Nah -- It's not that like that one or two or even three student in a classroom would reduce the cost of that class.
There's a larger cost to be paid when the kids who sleep through high school are now demanding a career wage to flip fries or collect grocery carts. And that's provided they can read well enough to even get a job.
i remember a class in college, the professor said on first day, I dont care if you learn this or not, we have your money. you get offended by the subject, dont care, we have your money
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