This country (USA) is already spiraling down hill. The cost of education is out of reach for some of the brightest kids. Some borrow themselves into debt for a long time after graduation (some may never get out of it).
I see two things happening, 1) some of the brightest will not have the opportunities to go to school. 2) some will get a lucrative jobs with foreign companies to get out of debt and usually that is not for the benefit of this nation.
This country has a need to support these kids in hopes that they can turn this country around. How’s about free education?
In junior colleges, the foreign student paid a lot more tuition then its own citizens. With this in mind, do you think the junior colleges want (profit) more foreign or their own citizens?
I just feel that this government is all talk, too busy selling out the country to foreign companies to benefit only themselves, trying to keep up with the have and have not.
2006-07-06 06:18:11 · 13 answers · asked by timer 3 in Social Science ➔ Economics
You obviously have been listening to lefties who only tell one side of the story. Yes, the cost of education is up, but the amount of grants and financial aid given has decreased the overall cost.
Education would be a hell of a lot cheapier if the teachers union were gone. Their benefits are outragous! The BS that they spin about not having enough money to educate our poor children is crap. They can pay for some of their health care premiums and reduce their pension benifits.
2006-07-06 06:27:53 · answer #1 · answered by jptheman25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as we hate it, education is a business. The schools' must turn a profit in order to continue providing education to the students. It is because of those profits that educational costs, towards students, continue to rise.
You mention that the brightest students may not be able to afford to attend secondary education. Hopefully, the school they choose to attend will offer some form of scholarship helping them achieve the dreams they have.
As far as a free education, it's a wonderful thought but it would never work. The reason America continues to educate some of the brightest minds in the world is because of the professors offering their services. If the schools stopped making a profit, the greatest brains in any field would choose a school outside the US to teach at and earn a decent living. It's the same theory with health care, eliminate the profit from it and we lose the best doctors and surgeons to expensive private firms or other countries.
2006-07-06 06:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by colts_fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let the kids pay for themselves.
I am 24 working a full time job while paying for college completely on my own, until very recently I did not get one cent of aid for any of my college tuition.
Out of like 9 classes so far I got employer re-imbursement for the costs of 1 class, and that was much after the fact, to the point where I used the check I wasnt planning on having anyway to pay extra on my car since I already paid the cost for the class anyway right out of my paycheck.
I dont have any special advantages anyone else doesnt have, I just work harder for what I have and what I want to get than most people do.
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2006-07-09 11:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by Raiddinn Beatdropper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cost of education is indeed increasing faster than CPI. (The same goes for healthcare.) Why? Beacuse demand for both increases faster than supply; people want (and are ready to pay for) more than the system can provide.
Your concern for "the brightest kids" seems misplaced. The brightest kids will always be able to sail through the system on financial aid. You should worry about the average kids whom schools consistently fail to teach reading and basic math. As a result, for many people education stops in third grade, forever.
There is also that monstrous American invention, the school district. Nowhere in the world are school principals as powerless as they are in the U.S. They can't hire and fire teachers, not to mention lack of any budget authority. As a result, people who are uniquely positioned to make changes, are stripped of a chance to do so.
Compare the U.S. secondary education and the U.S. higher education. Which is based on competition between institutions (both for the best teachers and for the best students) and which is not? Which truly allows for diversity (schools funded by states, non-profit schools funded by private donors, for-profit schools) and which only pays it lip service? Which is free to attact teaching talent from abroad and which is not? Which is regarded as best in the world and which is not?
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2016-11-05 23:46:59 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because we are NOT and I repeat NOT getting what our tax dollars are paying for in public education. Of my four children, in what is supposed be among one of the top five high schools in the freaking NATION only one of them is getting what I consider to be an adequate education. There is a sweep it under the rug... let them fall through the cracks mentality at work even in so called "good schools".
2006-07-06 06:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by nimbleminx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's by design. It's class separation/stratification. If the rich can't grab everything at the polls (like they are now), they will simply sew up the best jobs (that remain, after outsourcing and illegal immigrants) by monopolizing higher education
Its unrestricted warfare on the middle class - just like jacking the price of gas to $3 per gallon and beyond.
2006-07-06 06:23:16 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cost of the military budget and war is killing our nation. recruiters are offering 500 dollars to people who refer others who sign up and qualify to sign up at colleges all over the nation that is alot of money,also we have the biggest defense and military spending budget in history, we have more bases than the world has countries,if all the military forces of the world combined the US military would severley outnumber all the world forces, education is suffering and so is our healthcare system,dont get the facts twisted
2006-07-06 06:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What gets under my skin is the fact that people in the armed forces that are stationed around the country have to pay out of state tution and they are now trying to make illegal immigrants children able to get in state....
2006-07-06 06:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by ncentity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the cost of college is way to high its ridiculous i have 4 kids and we dont even know if we can afford to send 1 of them to college now the best way is join the military and get free college but on the same time they got send to iraq or afganistan and get killed this place is bullshit and i cant wait to leave
2006-07-06 08:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋