reply to post by TupacShakur
I am not opposed to a free education, there is something wrong with a system that has you buried in debt with regressing wages and higher prices. But
then you come to another realization that colleges are graduating people like this young man who clearly is inarticulate and has no idea what he is
talking about and clearly should be in class. The other issue becomes what do you do with underperformers? Me if I am going to school and I don't
have to pay for it, I am out to get the most out of it I can. But this is a real issue you have students that have their way paid for them that have
no concern about their grades.
Then you have to face the problem of those that would scam the system. And it is something that happens with things the way they are right now. I will
never forget the day I was told I made too much money to get any grants to help me. Only to go to the mall and watch the woman with her friend and her
kids on a shopping spree with grant money for classes that she was already planning on dropping out of.
There will always be people that game the system, that is human nature. But before we can say people are entitled to an education paid for by the
taxpayer, we have to figure out how to make sure the majority of those students understand that they have the public trust and that doesn't come
lightly.