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If our colleges were better, would we need high school?
by jhuni 16y ago
If our colleges were better, would we need high school?
- borski 16y agoYes. Colleges aren't free and a lot of people don't have the money to pay for them. Public education is important.
- burgerbrain 16y agoThere are educational systems other than the current US one you know. Presumably "better colleges" would include, among other things, better and cheaper state schools.
- borski 16y agoCheap still isn't free. The idea of college, at least in its current incarnation, is inherently non-free. Also, college during the high school years, lessening the amount of "normal" schooling, leaves the formative years usually spent at college totally free. This can be good, but it can also be very bad; many people don't "find themselves" until those years.
- burgerbrain 16y agoNo schooling is free.
- thematt 16y agoPublic education isn't free either. You just pay for it every April instead of every semester.
- borski 16y agoTouché. But if you have no money, you don't pay for it every April, and can still reap the benefits. The arguments about whether this is right or wrong are plenty, but the point stands: public education is free, especially for those who have a very low income. They don't pay for it; the idea is eventually they'll pay for others' schooling in the same way others paid for theirs. That's the way I see it, at least.