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College Education an Entitlement?
Thousands of students in Briton are protesting with signs that read "Free Education Now".
What do you think about that? Does that seem weird to anyone besides me?
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11-11-2010, 06:00 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Thousands of students in Briton are protesting with signs that read "Free Education Now".
What do you think about that? Does that seem weird to anyone besides me?
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Youth can go on line and learn. It is free.
It seems if they had to earn money for tuition, the drop out issues change.
If they work hard, they can get scholarships. My kid had as much as 34,000 in a year in scholarships and grants.
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11-11-2010, 06:07 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
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Youth can go on line and learn. It is free.
It seems if they had to earn money for tuition, the drop out issues change.
If they work hard, they can get scholarships. My kid had as much as 34,000 in a year in scholarships and grants.
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lol. So all capable students can get 34,000 dollars in scholarships?
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11-11-2010, 06:18 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
The British government are considering allowing colleges to charge up to 9,000 pounds per year, as opposed to the current 3,000 pounds per year.
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11-11-2010, 07:48 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
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lol. So all capable students can get 34,000 dollars in scholarships?
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Or even more. National Merit Scholars and folks with perfect gpa's and high ACT scores do very well.
The problem is we as parents often don't teach kids how to work hard and do good work.
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11-11-2010, 08:17 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
I think all public universities should be free.
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11-11-2010, 08:26 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
I think it is outside the intended duty of government to provide welfare to corporations or to the people. But that concept is long lost.
While I am not for the government taking money from one group of people to give to another I would say that if one were going to subsidize anything that education would definitely appear to be a move that would pay dividends.
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11-11-2010, 08:27 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
Oy...then we'd have even more people with degrees who don't know anything. Or maybe not. I'd probably have dropped out by now if there weren't these loans hanging over my head.
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11-11-2010, 08:39 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
I don't think college education should be free. Public universities are already subsidized by the taxpayer. Education means more to someone if they're paying for it. Grants, scholarships, low interest loans, I favor. Completely free, no.
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11-11-2010, 08:42 AM
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Re: College Education an Entitlement?
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I don't think college education should be free. Public universities are already subsidized by the taxpayer. Education means more to someone if they're paying for it. Grants, scholarships, low interest loans, I favor. Completely free, no.
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Are we talking free/free or just free?
The first thing a kid needs to learn is that some one is paying for "free" education.
Free health care is very expensive.
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