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In a fit of irony I managed to graduate college because I was too poor to pay for college. FAFSA covered everything I needed, although I had to make large medic
by fzeroracer 8y ago
In a fit of irony I managed to graduate college because I was too poor to pay for college. FAFSA covered everything I needed, although I had to make large medical sacrifices along the way.
Needless to say student debt in America is out of control. We told kids endlessly that they should chase their dream and become who they want while pulling the rug out from under them and using predatory loaning practices.
It's another ticking timebomb that when it goes off it's going to cripple a large amount of Americans. We need to be funneling more money into our school system and actually make college free.
- Delmania 8y agoI don't think making college free would solve the issue. We have this narrative that you need college to get ahead when there are many quality trade schools, on the job training, and (perhaps a bit controversial) the military. I think we need to give seniors the full picture of options.
- fzeroracer 8y agoThe first two options are only viable in a couple of sectors and increasingly (in my opinion) we've seen on the job training for low-experience workers vanish in the software sector. Not everyone is going to want to go the trade school route and again, limiting educational options by wealth is why we're in this situation in the first place. And the military is a no-go. We already use it as a welfare gate for poor Americans, creating a society where the poor have to serve in the military to survive while the rich skip out. This is a dystopian ideal to me.