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o.o why is it the parent's responsibilities to pay for the child's tertiary education?
by daurnimator 10y ago
o.o why is it the parent's responsibilities to pay for the child's tertiary education?
- rosstex 10y agoThis is America
- umanwizard 10y agoWhose else should it be? Going to an ultra-elite country club university whose operating expenses are on the order of 50-100k per student per year is a luxury, not a necessity or some sort of human right. Very few other countries in the world have schools this prestigious, by the way, so it's not necessarily valid to compare them. Edit: by the way, I highly doubt that there is any country in the world with universities that operate completely independently, with virtually no State oversight over budget, admissions decisions, curriculum, or degrees granted, and which can charge students however much they want, such that the State also pays the education bill for students.
- daurnimator 10y agoUsually the student takes out a loan for themselves.
- umanwizard 10y agoAh okay, I assumed you were implying it should be the responsibility of the State.
- daurnimator 10y agoIMO the state should pay (up to) a fixed amount per student (say, $5k a year). Anything above that needs to come out of the student's own money/loans/strings to pull. My concern is with bringing in parental income to the situation.
- intrasight 10y agoYou don't pay - but you do contribute.